English Dictionary

Magdalene laundry

名詞

アイルランド英語 歴史的

(historical, chiefly Ireland) A religious facility in which prostitutes and unmarried mothers were kept, usually against their will, as a source of forced labour to launder clothes.

日本語の意味

歴史的（主にアイルランド）に存在した施設のことで、売春婦や未婚の母親が意に反して強制的に収容され、労働力として衣服の洗濯作業を強いられた宗教関連施設を指す。

As a historian, she argued that the abuses in the Magdalene laundry could no longer be ignored.

歴史家として、彼女は未婚の母や売春婦を拘束して衣類の洗濯を強制した宗教施設であるマグダレナの洗濯場での虐待をもはや無視できないと主張した。

意味（1）

(historical, chiefly Ireland) A religious facility in which prostitutes and unmarried mothers were kept, usually against their will, as a source of forced labour to launder clothes.

Magdalene laundries （ plural ）