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 Translation for 'lunatic asylum' from English to French
NOUN   a lunatic asylum | lunatic asylums
dr.méd.psych.
asile {m} d'aliénés
lunatic asylum [obs.] [now pej.]
Partial Matches
forcené {m}lunatic
psych.
détraqué {m}
lunatic
fou {adj}lunatic
zinzin {m} [fam.]lunatic
zinzin {f} [fam.]lunatic [female]
forcenée {f}lunatic [female]
cinglé {adj} [fam.] [péj.]lunatic [pej.]
psych.
détraquée {f}
lunatic [female]
asile {m}asylum
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aliénée {f}lunatic [dated] [insane female]
aliéné {m}lunatic [dated] [insane male]
dr.pol.
droit {m} d'asile
asylum law
dr.pol.
demandeur {m} d'asile
asylum seeker
dr.pol.
asile {m} politique
political asylum
sociol.
foyer {m} de demandeurs d'asile
asylum-seekers' hostel
pol.
droit {m} d'asile
right of asylum
dr.pol.
demandeuse {f} d'asile
asylum seeker [female]
dr.pol.
demandeur {m} d'asile
applicant for asylum
pol.
lieu {m} d'asile
place of asylum
dr.pol.
droit {m} d'asile
law of asylum
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Usage Examples English
  • ... 1721–1794) was provost in the town during the 1760s and 1780s and oversaw the establishment of Scotland's first Lunatic Asylum in Montrose in 1781 which eventually became known as Sunnyside Royal Hospital.
  • Sargeson continued to nurture and promote New Zealand literary talent, as he had with "Speaking for Ourselves", most notably by inviting the young author and poet Janet Frame to live in the former army hut on his property in 1955, not long after her discharge from Seacliff Lunatic Asylum.
  • He organised the Governor, Sir Charles Hotham, to lay the foundation stones of University of Melbourne, Melbourne Public Library and Sunbury Industrial School Sunbury Lunatic Asylum in 1854 – all on the same day.
  • The Western State Hospital, established in 1854 as the Western Lunatic Asylum, is an inpatient center for the treatment of mental illness.
  • Although Dolittle is acquitted on the murder charge, the vindictive judge sentences him to a lunatic asylum.

  • Lying to the west of the River Brent and so actually in the precinct of Norwood Green, the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum was commonly referred to as the Hanwell Asylum because it was closer to the centre of Hanwell than either Norwood or Southall.
  • Elizabeths Hospital, a lunatic asylum (as mental hospitals were then called) in Washington, D.C.
  • After his lengthy imprisonment in Ferrara's Santa Anna lunatic asylum, he was able to resume his writing, although he never fully recovered.
  • Bodmin County Lunatic Asylum, later known as St Lawrence's Hospital, was designed by John Foulston. The humorist, William Robert Hicks, was domestic superintendent in the mid-19th century.
  • In February 1919 the first self-consciously proclaimed soviet in the United Kingdom was established at Monaghan Lunatic Asylum.

  • The novel "Clans of the Alphane Moon" centers on an entire society made up of descendants of lunatic asylum inmates.
  • Residential streets generally run north–south from Lake Ontario north to Birmingham Street, except for the Lakeshore Grounds (formerly the Mimico Lunatic Asylum / Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital) to the southwest which extends from Lake Shore Blvd.
  • Terriss had been stabbed at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in December 1897 and in the wake of his death, Prince was committed to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
  • He took his first job at Lunatic Asylum making observations about the insane.
  • In 1854, however, he was sentenced to a fine and three months' imprisonment for sedition, and later confined in a lunatic asylum; in 1856, he returned to Wallachia with his brother – afterwards one of his foremost political opponents.

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