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- noun Plural form of
oubliette .
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Examples
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Commoners who were not killed outright were thrown into dungeons called oubliettes, where they faced starvation and, often, torture.
KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010
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Commoners who were not killed outright were thrown into dungeons called oubliettes, where they faced starvation and, often, torture.
KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010
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"oubliettes" - from the verb oublier, 'to forget'.
10,000 Birds 2009
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I've tried a couple of these "oubliettes," and they're fun.
Single-Sheet Comics 2009
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Flay your enemies or put them in cylindrical oubliettes, where the prisoner is made to stand at all times, unable to sit, crouch or even scratch an ankle.
A Land of Wargs And Yunkishmen Tom Shippey 2011
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I believe he's using "foldies" as the generic term while titling his own series of semi-autobiographical examples as "oubliettes."
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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I believe he's using "foldies" as the generic term while titling his own series of semi-autobiographical examples as "oubliettes."
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Rubenstein notes that Jon Chad's Whaletowne unfolds (both physically and narratively) much the same way as his oubliettes.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Rubenstein notes that Jon Chad's Whaletowne unfolds (both physically and narratively) much the same way as his oubliettes.
Single-Sheet Comics 2009
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Can't tell how deep it is, but it looks as though it narrows a bit, some distance down, like those jolly French oubliettes, so you'll probably stick fast.
Watershed 2010
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