barred windows
Jail cell feature
Windows fitted with metal bars to prevent entry or escape.
Barred windows appear on ground floors in high-crime areas, on prisons and jails, and historically on psychiatric institutions.
The bars may be decorative ironwork or plain security grating: The old asylum still had barred windows on every floor.
Figuratively, barred windows evoke confinement or captivity.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- prison cellLocked room for inmates
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
- cellBasic unit of life
grate · iron · cage · locked · captive · security · trapped · no escape · incarcerated · locked away · lattice · grille · confined · escape · asylum · mental institution · dungeon · penitentiary
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- alleysalley, alleyway, back alley, backstreet, blind alley
- psych wardspsychiatric hospital, psych ward, mental ward, locked ward, padded cell
barred windowsopen windows
Unsealed glazed wall gaps
bay windows · picture windows · floor-to-ceiling windows · glass walls · skylights
barred windowsopen doors
Unblocked entrances
picture windows · flower boxes · window boxes · French doors · lace curtains
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