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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Oubliette
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a French architectural term (from oublier, to forget), used in two senses of a dungeon or cell in a prison or castle which could only be reached by a trap-door from another dungeon, and of a concealed opening or passage leading from a dungeon to the moat or river, into which bodies of prisoners who were to be secretly disposed of might be dropped. Viollet le Duc (Diet. de l'architecture) gives a diagram of such an oubliette at the castle of Pierrefonds, France. Many so-called "oubliettes" in medieval castles were probably outlets for the disposal of drainage, refuse, &c., which at times may have served for the getting rid of prisoners.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Oubliette'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/oubliette.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Oubliette'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/oubliette.html. 1910.
