Broadmoor

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A census-designated place in San Mateo County, California, United States.
  2. 2
    A high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England.

    "Unusually for a Broadmoor patient, he traveled with another patient being transferred from the same prison, a gentleman called Edmund Dainty, who had killed a fellow patient in the Surrey Asylum."

Example

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"Unusually for a Broadmoor patient, he traveled with another patient being transferred from the same prison, a gentleman called Edmund Dainty, who had killed a fellow patient in the Surrey Asylum."

Etymology

From broad + moor.

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