sponging-house

See also: sponging house

English

sponging-house (plural sponging-houses)

(historical) A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, VI:
  she perswaded the Creditors to send Two Bayliffs, who carry'd me to a Spunging-House in a very weak Condition […]

单词	sponging-house
释义	sponging-house See also: sponging house English Noun sponging-house (plural sponging-houses) (historical) A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison. 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, VI: she perswaded the Creditors to send Two Bayliffs, who carry'd me to a Spunging-House in a very weak Condition […]
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