Word For The Day: OUBLIETTE

2000 MOST CHALLENGING AND OBSCURE WORDS | 8/2/17 | Norman Schur

[Louis Foxwell]

WORD FOR THE DAY

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

OUBLIETTE [ooH blee ET]

hear it pronounced

noun

A secret cubicle in the floor of a dungeon, topped by a trapdoor in which the unfortunate victim is dropped and forgotten. It is a tomb in which the condemned dies.

French origin, mettre aux oubliettes, metaporically, assigned to oblivion.

[knittnmom]

Learned the word OUBLIETTE watching “Labyrinth” - now I know how it’s spelled! Thanks.

[Louis Foxwell]

An excellent plan. The returning wall.

[Louis Foxwell]

You are correct. It is to be forgotten, cast aside, never remembered again.

[Louis Foxwell]

Like an impenetrable locked box with a lost key, oubliette that which need not be remembered to the pit of forgotten memory.

[Louis Foxwell]

Excellent choice of Venezuela to demonstrate today’s word. The liberal mind is an oubliette of failed fantasies.

[Robert A Cook PE]

But they claim that nothing can be a success without causing a few small losses ....

What the socialist-democrats ignore is that, for healthcare, the nation’s health is being forced into the sewer of millions of broken eggs, all for the sake of their rare self-chosen Ommuilettes of self-satisfaction.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Sounds like a good place for Hillary and her minions.

[SkyDancer]

I was dropped down that hole by the dispatcher until my captain rescued me.

[left that other site]

The French word for "Forget" is "oubliere".

[PLMerite]

[Louis Foxwell]

A well is a classic oubliette, with a lid on it.

[PLMerite]

This was identified as an oubliette, so I assume at one time there was a castle on top of it. :)

[Calvin Locke]

MHZ. They rerun “series” periodically. You can check out mhznetworks.org for airings, or purchase maybe. Maybe the library will have the novels that the 90 minute epis are based upon.

[Texan5]

The driveby media has decided
Pres Trump has the WH turned
Into the castle of an evil king
Where the disloyal are burned

Or cast into a dark oubliette
Under the oval office’s floor-
The only way in or out being
A locked and heavy trap door

If so, his guards just should
Herd all the disloyal at dawn
March them out-display them
All in stocks on the WH lawn...

Now that’s a scenario I could really get into...

[Louis Foxwell]

We are reaching out. Truth Factory just used todays WFTD:

Why was Seth Rich trending like a ROCKET on Twitter one instant, then banished to a dark oubliette the very next..?

[Louis Foxwell]

You are such a dreamer.

[Louis Foxwell]

Nice. They must have been deep, to contain the stench and allow for multiple droppings.

[Louis Foxwell]

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Here is a word resurrected from last year that deserves revisiting. The commentary from then is wonderful. The application is entirely appropriate for those deserving of being dropped into a pit and forgotten. Guantanamo is our oubliette. Make it so.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Mrs. Clinton wants us to forget
Drop her sins into an oubliette
Make the Steele Dossier
Disappear, go away
She’s as low and corrupt as they get

[Louis Foxwell]

Thank you for participating in this odd ball post. There is much about Mrs. Clinton that needs forgetting.