lunatic asylum

British  

noun

1. another name, usually regarded as offensive, for mental home

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Example Sentences

There are important insights here—such as how easily a woman with postpartum pre-eclampsia might have been involuntarily committed to a lunatic asylum at the time, or how the average New England mother in 1830 would bear six children, two of whom would die before the age of 5—but it’s not enough to keep the ship moving forward.

From The Wall Street Journal

A story about a mother and daughter set in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, W.Va., after the Civil War.

From New York Times

At the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, where they wind up, the real-life Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride ran a program for the mentally ill that he called “moral treatment.”

From Los Angeles Times

Jackson played the lunatic asylum inmate who finds herself acting the role of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of the French revolutionary, Jean Marat.

From BBC

In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and sensitively revealing the stories of those who lived at the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

From BBC

Related Words

• mental health facility
• mental health institution
• psychiatric hospital