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‖ oubliette, n.|ublijɛt|
[Fr. oubliette (14th c. in Littré), f. oublier to forget.]
A secret dungeon, access to which was gained only through a trap-door above; often having a secret pit below, into which the prisoner might be precipitated.
1819Scott Ivanhoe xlii, The place was utterly dark—the oubliette, as I suppose, of their accursed convent. a1845Hood Knight & Dragon xxviii, In the dark oubliette Let yon merchant forget That he e'er had a bark richly laden. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxix. 15 Forgotten like one in the oubliettes of the Bastille. 1877Tennyson Harold ii. ii, The deep-down oubliette, Down thirty feet below the smiling day—In blackness.
Hence oubliˈette v. trans., to shut up in, or as in, an oubliette.
1884Tennyson Becket iv. ii, Could you keep her Indungeon'd from one whisper of the wind, Dark even from a side glance of the moon, And oublietted in the centre. |