oubliette.

A dungeon or prison chamber reached through an opening above, associated with keeping a prisoner out of sight.

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Words that belong together

• deep oubliette
• trapdoor to an oubliette
• prisoner in an oubliette

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The trapdoor opened above an oubliette.

A rope was lowered into the dark oubliette.

The prisoner could see only the small opening at the top of the oubliette.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular oubliette; plural oubliettes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.