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dungeon

Principal tower or keep of a Norman castle. The modern use of the word ‘dungeon’ for a prison is derived from the position of the Norman prison in the ground storey of the ‘donjon’.
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The dungeon had only one little window, high up in the wall, with bars in it; and the door was strong and thick.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh View in context
It has been used as a prison for political offenders for two or three hundred years, and its dungeon walls are scarred with the rudely carved names of many and many a captive who fretted his life away here and left no record of himself but these sad epitaphs wrought with his own hands.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
So the Delegation was cast into the deepest dungeon beneath the moat, where it maintained a divided mind for many weeks, but finally reconciled its differences and asked to be taken before the New President.
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