Noun: borstal
| Singular | borstal |
| Plural | borstals |
Sample Sentences
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You have juvenile courts. Do you have borstal institutions for juveniles? [2004, August 3, Speaker of the Kenyan National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record, Hansard, page 3126]
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Seven years ago, I was sent to borstal. Slithering around in the societal sludge, I was forced to admit I'd made a huge mistake – committing robbery. [2011 November 7, Paris Lees, “My Transsexual Summer: a new view of gender”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like borstal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English *borstile, *borghstile, from Old English beorh (“a hill”) + stigel (“a stile”).
2. The institutions are named after Borstal Prison in Borstal, Rochester, Kent, England. See: Middle English Nouns '
*borstile', Middle English Nouns '
*borstile', Old English Nouns '
beorh'.