The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subterrane
Subterrane \Sub"ter*rane\, n. [Cf. L. subterraneum, F.
souterrain. See Subterranean.]
A cave or room under ground. [R.]
--J. Bryant.
Wiktionary
subterrane
n. A cave or underground room.
Usage examples of "subterrane".
Our funerary jars keep not only our lights and silent hearts, but our wells, deeper than you can imagine, where the subterrane of lost hours, all the deaths that ever were, the deaths on which mankind has built new tenements of flesh and ramparts of stone moving ever upward even as we sink down and down, doused in twilights, bandaged by midnights.