oubliette

• I felt as if I had fallen down an oubliette, and I was about to utter the loud shrieks befitting the occasion, when you wrote at last. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The lights of the oubliette are of that ancient kind that is said to burn forever, though some have now gone out. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
• The rule against apprentices working in the oubliette was intended to prevent escapes; and I knew that tall though she was, this slender woman could never overpower me, and that should she do so she would have no chance of making her way out without being challenged. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
• "The oubliette is a dirty place, and fuligin doesn't show bloodstains." —  The Shadow of the Torturer
• This was the case recently when I flicked through Foyle's Philavery and stumbled across the word oubliette, the name for a secret dungeon beneath a trap door.Oubliette is hardly a word that a person needs to use everyday, unless perhaps you're trapped in a dungeon or live in a castle.

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