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Meanings of
oubliette
in English
Russian
ублиет
Portuguese
masmorra
Catalan
masmorra
Spanish
celda
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Room or cell in which prisoners are held, usually during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
dungeon
Russian
ублиет
Usage of
oubliette
in English
1
I forced myself to crawl back to the edge of the
oubliette
.
2
That was hardly surprising, with a hook and an
oubliette
so near.
3
And then the young warlords were gone, dragging their prisoner to the
oubliette
.
4
It turned easily, and Daylan Hammer was free of the
oubliette
.
5
Someone else in her place, perhaps, but I... took her from the
oubliette
.
6
Hoggle had taken the torch and waddled into one corner of the
oubliette
.
7
And in its center was the manhole cover of the
oubliette
.
8
Broomsticks and buckets fell out of the doorway into the
oubliette
.
9
According to our guide, when the
oubliette
was emptied, hundreds of skeletons were discovered.
10
The
oubliette
-
Almeric
shuddered
,
and the colour faded from his face.
11
He was accomplishing this by going down a spiritual
oubliette
.
12
But the
oubliette
alone will let you think while dying.
13
An
oubliette
into which prisoners were hurled and forgotten?
14
Then she took us into a tower where was the
"
oubliette
.
"
15
The gloomy chamber, however, is generally called an
oubliette
.
16
An
oubliette
,
a shit-hole dungeon where they gibber for months until they go piss-pants insane.
Other examples for "oubliette"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
oubliette
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
black oubliette
call an oubliette
escape the oubliette
perfect oubliette
public oubliette
More collocations
Translations for
oubliette
Russian
ублиет
Portuguese
masmorra
Catalan
masmorra
Spanish
celda
mazmorra
Oubliette
through the time