reformatories

[ri-fawr-muh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

adjective

serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.

noun

Also called reform school. a penal institution for reforming young offenders, especially minors.

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Reformatories is always a great word to know.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1580–90; < Latin refōrmāt(us) (see reformation) + -ory¹, -ory²

Related forms

pre·re·form·a·to·ry, adjective

pseu·do·re·form·a·to·ry, adjective

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