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What (who) is oubliette - definition
ROOM OR CELL IN WHICH PRISONERS ARE HELD, USUALLY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
Oubliette; Dungeons; Dunngeon; Bottle dungeon; Dungeons in fiction; Fictional dungeon; Fictional dungeons
Oubliette
·noun A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.
oubliette
[?u:bl?'?t]
¦ noun a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling.
Origin
C18: from Fr., from oublier 'forget'.
dungeon
n.
Prison (especially one underground and dark), keep, donjon-keep.
Wikipedia
Dungeon
A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette (from french oublier meaning to forget) or bottle dungeon is a basement room which is accessible only from a hatch or hole (an angstloch) in a high ceiling. Victims in oubliettes were often left to starve and dehydrate to death, making the practice akin to—and some say an actual variety of—immurement.
Examples of use of oubliette
1. In a small chamber off the main dungeon is the oubliette, a sunken pit into which prisoners are lowered, forgotten and left to rot.
2. The pound sterling, too, was heading for the oubliette of history, and six years ago he launched the grand campaign that was to push it on its way.