oubliette

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

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /uːbliˈɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

oubliette (plural oubliettes)

1. A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. [from 18th c.]

   Hypernym: dungeon

• Dungeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From oublier (“to forget”) +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /u.bli.jɛt/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

oubliette f (plural oubliettes)

1. oubliette [from 14th c.]

• jeter aux oubliettes
• oubliettes de l'histoire

• → Dutch: oubliëtte
• → English: oubliette
• → Italian: oubliette

• “oubliette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

oubliette f (plural oublietti)

1. oubliette