桎しっ梏こく

noun

bonds; fetters; shackles

Literary or formal term for physical restraints such as handcuffs or leg-irons, and by extension for anything that binds or restricts freedom. Often used metaphorically in written Japanese.

• 囚しゅう人じんは桎しっ梏こくをはめられて護ご送そうされた。

  The prisoner was transported in fetters.

• 伝でん統とうの桎しっ梏こくから逃のがれ、新あたらしい表ひょう現げんを模も索さくした。

  They broke free from the shackles of tradition and sought new forms of expression.