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mental home

British  

noun

  1. a home, hospital, or institution for people who are mentally ill

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mr. Ochs demanded that he and his brother, who suffers from a different form of the same condition, take a pledge never to incarcerate the other in a mental home.

From New York Times Dec. 26, 2010

Last week these names made this news: When soul-searching Author F. Scott Fitzgerald came to Hollywood in 1937, he left his wife Zelda behind in a North Carolina mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

I went to private clinics, public hospitals and even ended up in a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a mental home near Grasse where I believe they would take her; I can telephone and find out.

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

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