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oubliette::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | dungeon |
Examples of oubliette
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One feels one could drop into an oubliette and disappear forever at any moment.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A 2009 dig uncovered a deep oubliette, or pit, that dates to the 11th century.
From the post-gazette.com
I really hope you reap what you have sown, and enjoy the ride down oubliette.
From the economist.com
The legal oubliette in question is the United Nations'terrorist watchlist.
From the economist.com
Jareth sends Hoggle into the oubliette to free Sarah.
From the en.wikipedia.org
So the oubliette yawned and swallowed him.
From the time.com
It heartens not just those fighting a doomed battle to keep geek and gamer culture in a comfortable oubliette, but also the Jack Thompsons of this world.
From the forbes.com
The Republicans are just heading down the oubliette, making themselves ever more ultra-partisan, ever more radical, ever more unpleasant and ever more unelectable.
From the economist.com
She advances through the labyrinth alone and overcomes a series of obstacles during her journey, including a Knights and Knaves logic puzzle, before eventually trapping herself in an oubliette.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling
- A dungeon is a room or cell in which s are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. ...
- Season three of the television show The X-Files ran from 1995-1996. Episodes marked with an asterisk (*) are part of the series' mytharc. Episodes with a double asterisk (**) are part of the series' Alien Mythology.
- The Oubliette is a 1914 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn, featuring Murdock MacQuarrie and Lon Chaney, Sr. This movie and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.
- A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. [from 18th c.]
- A place to put people to forget about them. Specifically one of many traps in the Labyrinth one could fall into. They're seemingly exitless, although at least one has a secret way out. Term comes from the French verb oublier, to forget.
- A dungeon reached by a trap door, often in one of the castle towers. The word comes from French meaning "place of forgetting".
- A dungeon reached by a trap door; starvation hole
- Concealed dungeon having a trap door in its ceiling as its only opening, where prisoners were often left to starve to death, sometimes in total darkness.
