oubliette
See also: oubliëtte
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /uːbliˈɛt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
oubliette (plural oubliettes)
Hypernyms edit
Translations edit
dungeon
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Further reading edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From oublier (“to forget”) + -ette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
oubliette f (plural oubliettes)
- oubliette [from 14th c.]
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “oubliette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
oubliette f (plural oublietti)