oubliette

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Recent Examples of oubliette One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls. Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025 This godown was an oubliette. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet. Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliette
Noun
  • Starting today, the latest duo of PvE dungeons dubbed the Feast of Shadows update is now available for console players.
    David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And so there's this castle that has these massive dungeons .
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jones was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in 1996 and was in prison until 2021.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The law mandates that second-degree persistent felony offenders be sentenced to a prison term within the penalty range for the next highest degree of felony.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • He is being held on $2 million bail, online jail records show.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • He was eventually sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding investors.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At Parchman, the state’s troubled penitentiary, corrections workers were urging their colleagues to sign up.
    Kevin Collier, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Morgan shot and killed Lenny Scott, who was a jailhouse guard while Morgan was previously behind bars and had exposed the affair Morgan was having with a female guard after discovering a secret cellphone in his cell during a search, according to prosecutors with the CPS.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.
    Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.
    Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.
    Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • In these wet, wooden bastilles in New York waters, more Americans died than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
Noun
  • Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025

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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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