Meanings
adjectiveprisonous (comparative more prisonous, superlative most prisonous)
comparative more prisonous · superlative most prisonous
- obsoleteResembling or characteristic of a prison.
Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner.
1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC
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