oubliette

Example Sentences

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He was not in the oubliette for long.

From The Guardian

A Morris oubliette means restraint into perfect immobility.

From New York Times

Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.

From New York Times

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 Literature

Of our prejudices against the Puritans, she writes: “Stigma is a vast oubliette.”

From New York Times