Siberian.
/sʌɪˈbɪərɪə/, U.S. /saɪˈbɪriə/ Used as a type of a cold, inhospitable place, or a place of exile, banishment, or imprisonment. Also figurative.
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1841 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 17 Feb. (1954) I. 81 Probably this projected transportation may be to a Cape of Good Hope instead of a Siberia.
1876 C. M. Yonge Three Brides I. x. 159 I used to be Camilla to all the neighbourhood, and here I find myself..banished to Siberia.
1926 C. Plumb in Oxf. Poetry 1925 40 The seas shall not seem vast Siberias of Time.
1952 R. Campbell tr. C. Baudelaire Poems 80 In my Siberia a bright explosion as of tropic heat.
1972 Listener 21 Dec. 857/3 In 1830 Andrew Jackson..[ordered] that all the Indian tribes..be removed to the west of the Mississippi..to the ‘Siberia’ of the Far West.
1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xi. 82 Guillam departed for the siberias of Brixton.
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