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A dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling
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oubliette
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"secret dungeon reached only via trapdoor," 1819, from French oubliette (14c.), from Middle French oublier "to forget, show negligence," Old French oblier , oblider , from Vulgar Latin *oblitare , from Latin oblitus , past participle of oblivisci "to forget" ...
Wikipedia
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An oubliette is a type of dungeon . Oubliette can also refer to: Oubliette (The X-Files) , an episode of The X-Files The Oubliette , a 1914 film starring Lon Chaney, Sr. A spaceship-like prison that appears in Metroid Prime Hunters Oubliette , an early ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oubliette \Ou`bli`ette"\, n. [F., fr. oublier to forget, fr. (assumed) LL. oblitare, L. oblivisci, p. p. oblitus.] A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. (from 18th c.)
Usage examples of oubliette.
Of course there were probably more men guarding the gate and the oubliette itself.
Was that truly a vision of betrayal and pain in an oubliette or just a dream brought on by my fears?
I found myself once more in the dank oubliette facing the saddened vision of my dear great-aunt.
Perhaps my vision of Aunt Lotta in the oubliette had been truth rather than hallucination.
The lights of the oubliette are of that ancient kind that is said to burn forever, though some have now gone out.
Then the journeymen on duty in the oubliette would hear tales of hunting dogs and remote heaths, and country games, unknown elsewhere, played beneath immemorial trees.
All that winter while snow whitened the Old Yard, I came up from the oubliette as if from sleep, and started to see the tracks my feet left behind me and my shadow on the snow.
In our oubliette, the overwhelming impression was of solidity and mass.
If I had been entering our own oubliette, I would have felt I was, quite literally, coming homeperhaps coming home to die, but coming home nevertheless.
Having escaped lucky from one womb, now forced into the oubliette of another not so happily starred?
With the native sound judgment of the father of a heroine of romance, the von Berlichingen of that day shut his daughter up in his donjon keep, or his oubliette, or his culverin, or some such place, and resolved that she should stay there until she selected a husband from among her rich and noble lovers.
He would never know what else the oubliette contained apart from the large useless article that would now serve the birth of a new urban deity.
Eleven The hole they made for Charles Yorke was not a grave, nor yet an oubliette, in theory.
The cord and transformer went down the oubliette, along with most of the perished items from the fridge.
I dumped the stuff down the oubliette and took new ingredients from the fridge.