oubliette
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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
If one of his thin hands that clutched the chair arms had pressed a secret spring and loosed a trap to send me gasping down an oubliette, I should have been the less astounded.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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