oubliette

/uːbliˈɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

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noun

"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."

Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).

oubliettes (plural)

memory hole

obliviation oblivion hole memory hole

Questions

How do you pronounce oubliette?

The recorded pronunciation is /uːbliˈɛt/.

What does oubliette mean?

A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.

Where does oubliette come from?

It is traced to French.

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