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- noun A
colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention andforced labor ofdeportees , typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
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- noun a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible)
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hernesheir commented on the word penal colony
Cf., then by all means read (twice at least) Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish!
September 24, 2009