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Substantiv
1.fågelkoloni

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
  2. A crowded tenement.
  3. (British) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.

Exempel

  • The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime.
  • These rookeries sustained criminal social systems that provided schooling in crime for the young and newcomers.
  • In the Victorian imagination, crime and the criminal class were always associated with rookeries, the dense slum areas in which criminals were said to live.

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