oubliette
nounUS, UK /uːbliˈɛt/
Etymology Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).
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:
- Related terms
- obliviation, oblivion, hole, memory hole