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Meanings of madhouse in English

Catalan
casa de boigs
Spanish
casa de locos

Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

casa de boigs
Usage of madhouse in English
1
It is a fireman mounting the great elm-tree in the madhouse yard.
Hard Cash
2
But never mind that; one must keep one's temper in this madhouse.
What's Wrong with the World
3
The Bishop obeyed Christ's injunction and got locked up in a madhouse.
The Iron Heel
4
They took him to the madhouse, and perhaps he is there still.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
5
Finally two doctors visited me, and I was taken to a madhouse.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
6
Live long enough in a madhouse, and you risk going mad yourself.
Armageddon's Children
7
Whether in a poorhouse, a madhouse or a hospital, I don't know.
The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy
8
If the same thing happened today, make no mistake, it'd be a madhouse.
Underground
9
It was, in the way of most public places in Italy, a madhouse.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
10
Ring for the gendarme and have him shut her up in the madhouse.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
11
She used to come and visit you, while you were in the madhouse!
From hell with love
12
You haven't spent a great deal of time in a madhouse, have you?
A duty to the dead
13
The returning gondola passes under the walls of the male madhouse.
A Wanderer in Venice
14
From the madhouse I returned late at night in my troika.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
15
The place was simply a madhouse, a monstrous pandemonium of prostitutes and maniacs.
Down There
16
It was just as obvious that the place was a madhouse.
The stand
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