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padded cell

noun

a room, as in a mental hospital, with padded walls for the confinement of violent inmates.

padded cell

a room, esp one in a mental hospital, with padded surfaces in which violent inmates are placed

That was, so to speak, a conjuring-trick of a laying-box, which let the egg fall through a trap-door into a padded cell beneath.

I'd as soon talk to a man in a padded cell and a strait-jacket.

Bob tried to chronicle his feelings in the padded cell, but he couldnt conjure up anything awful or harrowing.

A few minutes later Doctor Jekyll—or rather Mr. Hyde—accompanied by three attendants, entered the padded cell.

"Your vocation is the padded cell," replied his father tersely.

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