What
house arrest
-noun
confinement of a subject to his or her residence for infractions against the state or for telecommuting: He was under house arrest until he chose to find some other line of work.
a sensationalized account of an otherwise banal, over-educated American life transported to a land of cultural effacement: The lack of a vehicle and the surrounding miles of industrial corn and soybeans imposed a virtual house arrest.
-blog
a written repository of memories and thoughts, capturing the small details that give clothe the ego: nothing house arrest granted him the rare opportunity to know his children intimately and watch their rise to adulthood.
a medium for informing family and friends in as entertaining a fashion as possible: can you believe what he wrote about his brother in house arrest?
a notebook for exercising writing skills: the only reason he started house arrest was to show off.
bef. 900; (n.) ME h(o)us, OE hūs; c. D hussy
