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Internment   Listen
noun
Internment  n.  
1.
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
2.
Confining within a country for the duration of a war; usually of citizens of a hostile power.





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... class are mostly confined in barbed-wire internment camps outside the city, and guarded by Sengalese. Twenty per cent get permission to go into the city each day. The seventy or eighty thousand indigent Russians in Constantinople belong mostly to the upper classes. ...
— Europe—Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham


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