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oubliette

  • /uːbliˈɛt/ US, UK

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Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).

noun oubliettes

  1. A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. Le Chiffre's two cards followed them with a faint rattle which comes from the canister at the beginning of each session before the discards have made a cushion over the metal floor of their oubliette.

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noun dungeon

日本語地下牢 chikarō
Françaisoubliette
Italianooubliette
Русскийублие́т ublijét

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"oubliette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/oubliette. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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oubliette. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/oubliette

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"oubliette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/oubliette.

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@misc{oubliette_2026,
  title = {oubliette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oubliette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}