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protectory
[ pruh-tek-tuh-ree ]
noun
- an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
protectory
/ ±è°ùəˈ³ÙÉ›°ì³ÙÉ™°ùɪ /
noun
- an institution for the care of homeless, delinquent, or destitute children
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of protectory1
Example Sentences
He received his education in a protectory where the good brothers were much too busy to observe which hand he used.
He had been hardened by a stretch in a Catholic protectory in The Bronx, where the brothers belted him with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard.
The court sent "Squint" Sheridan to the Catholic Protectory for a year.
A class of children, whom we used thus to benefit, are now sent to the Catholic Protectory, or are retained in the City Alms-house on Randall's Island.
At the Protectory the percentage of drunkenness in parents was not quite one-fifth among over three thousand children cared for in the institution last year.
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