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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bride·well /ˈbraɪdˌwɛl, wəl/
 感化院,拘留所

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bride·well n. A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
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