A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.
". a dungeon with an opening only at the top. to forget"
A place to put people to forget about them. Specifically one of many traps in the Labyrinth one could fall into. They're seemingly exitless, although at least one has a secret way out. Term comes from the French verb oublier, to forget.
A dungeon reached by a trap door; starvation hole
a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling
a dungeon or cave with only an opening at the top
a dungeon with a trapdoor in the ceiling as its only means of entrance or exit
a secret dungeon entered only through a trapdoor - meaning, more or less, "a place to be forgotten in"
A dungeon reached by a trap door, often in one of the castle towers. The word comes from French meaning "place of forgetting".
A generally underground dungeon reached by a trap door. Criminals would be left to emaciation until their death.
Oubliette Concealed dungeon having a trap door in its ceiling as its only opening, where prisoners were often left to starve to death, sometimes in total darkness.
An oubliette was a form of dungeon which was accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling. To exit an oubliette was impossible under any circumstances, without outside help. The word comes from the French oublier, "to forget," as it was used for prisoners about whom it was desired to forget.