[ˈdjɔːrəns], (Noun)

Definitions:
- imprisonment or confinement
(e.g: the actor's years of durance vile in soap operas)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘continuance’): from Old French, from durer ‘to last’, from Latin durare. The sense ‘imprisonment’ is first recorded in the early 16th century