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oubliettes

oubliettes is the plural of oubliette.

Meaning of oubliette

Noun

oubliette (plural oubliettes)

  1. A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
    • Le Chiffre's two cards followed them with a faint rattle which comes from the canister at the beginning of each session before the discards have made a cushion over the metal floor of their oubliette.1953, Ian Fleming, “The High Table”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 75

Questions about oubliettes

What is oubliettes the plural of?
Oubliettes is the plural of oubliette.

Words near oubliettes in the dictionary

  1. Ouarzazate
  2. Ouazzane
  3. Oubangui
  4. oubliation
  5. oubliette
  6. oubliettes
  7. ouboet
  8. ouboets
  9. OUCA
  10. ouch
  11. ouche

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