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padded cell definition

padded cell

a cell, or room, for the confinement of violent patients or prisoners, lined with heavy, soft material as a protection against injury

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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