Definition of "prison-house" [prison-house]

• A house in which prisoners are kept; a jail; a place of confinement. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Appealing to the author's externally articulated "intention" can neither rescue a failed fiction from its flaws nor doom an otherwise rewarding work to the prison-house of the author's alleged ideological derelictions."
• "It reads like a report from some monstrous hell, rather than from a civilized prison-house of the twentieth century."
• "In truth, as is the way with all children, the shades of the prison-house closed about me, and I remembered my mighty past no more."