Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bridewell"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bridewell \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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