oubliette

Example Sentences

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Was the ghost seen admiring moats or pointing out that the oubliette needed a fresh coat of Sky Blue or what?

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2016

However, instead of banning players from Titanfall entirely for cheating, Respawn has chosen to build an oubliette, saying in an announcement:

From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2014

The I.R.A. promptly whisks Ned away to a mysterious Scandinavian oubliette, where he clings to sanity only by studying literature and philosophy and playing chess.

From Time Magazine Archive

I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

They disappear, and their habitation is hardly even the dust-bin; it is the oubliette; and their places are taken by others whose fates are not other.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George