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mental home

British  

noun

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

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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

Her father died eight months after her birth, a loss that drove her mother into a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the past 22 years she has lived almost continuously in a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

What guests were trying to elbow their way into her mental home?

From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise