Burdon's Hotel

English

Etymology

From the surname of a governor there.

Proper noun

Burdon's Hotel

  1. (obsolete, UK, slang) Whitecross Street Prison, London, England.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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