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单词 oubliette
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oublietten.

Brit. /ˌuːblɪˈɛt/, U.S. /ˌubliˈɛt/
Forms: 1700s obliette, 1800s– oubliette.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French oubliette.
Etymology: < French oubliette (late 14th cent. in Middle French, 1536 in figurative use) < oublier to forget (c1000 in Old French as oblider ; < a vulgar Latin derivative of classical Latin oblīviscī : see obliviscence n.) + -ette -ette suffix.
A secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling. Now chiefly in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > dungeon
dungOE
pitc1300
lakea1382
dungeonc1390
donjona1400
little-easea1529
thieves' hole1578
dungeon cell?1674
oubliette1777
1771 Town & Country Mag. Oct. 540/1 Cardinal Richelieu had a house at Bagneux, which has retained the name of the Oubliettes, (dungeons).]
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. xlv. 104 There were formerly two or three Obliettes in this castle;..but there are still several in the Bastille.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xii. 306 The place was utterly dark—the oubliette, as I suppose, of their accursed convent.
1840 T. Hood Knight & Dragon in Up the Rhine 162 In the dark Oubliette Let yon Merchant forget That he e'er had a bark richly laden.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 55 The deep-down oubliette, Down thirty feet below the smiling day—In blackness.
1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 72 Out of this oubliette between the mountains five valleys go, five passes like gates.
1953 E. Wilkins & E. Kaiser tr. R. Musil Man without Qualities I. xxxvii. 164 He was not prepared for..people demanding that he should release them from intellectual oubliettes.
1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 55 This oubliette that had risen up around him with its slippery invisible walls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

oubliettev.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: oubliette n.
Etymology: < oubliette n. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ubl·t) /ublijɛt/
poetic. Obsolete.
transitive. To shut up in, or as in, an oubliette.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]
beloukOE
loukOE
sparc1175
pena1200
bepen?c1225
pind?c1225
prison?c1225
spearc1300
stopc1315
restraina1325
aclosec1350
forbara1375
reclosea1382
ward1390
enclose1393
locka1400
reclusea1400
pinc1400
sparc1430
hamperc1440
umbecastc1440
murea1450
penda1450
mew?c1450
to shut inc1460
encharter1484
to shut up1490
bara1500
hedge1549
hema1552
impound1562
strain1566
chamber1568
to lock up1568
coop1570
incarcerate1575
cage1577
mew1581
kennel1582
coop1583
encagea1586
pound1589
imprisonc1595
encloister1596
button1598
immure1598
seclude1598
uplock1600
stow1602
confine1603
jail1604
hearse1608
bail1609
hasp1620
cub1621
secure1621
incarcera1653
fasten1658
to keep up1673
nun1753
mope1765
quarantine1804
peg1824
penfold1851
encoop1867
oubliette1884
jigger1887
corral1890
maroon1904
to bang up1950
to lock down1971
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iv. ii. 156 Could you keep her Indungeon'd from one whisper of the wind, Dark even from a side glance of the moon, And oublietted in the centre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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