Meaning of tortury | Babel Free

Definitions

A place where torture is performed.

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Examples

“"Ah," answered Jack on his own account, and with the openness for which he was distinguished, "you are afraid of little things. You were frighted of the tortury." "The tortury, indeed!" replied Monica, indignantly, "that is not a little thing, and at any rate I do not call a place a tortury because another place is named an armoury."”

“[…] Josh and Paxton visit the "Museum Tortury." Roth presents us with the ghoulish historical instruments of torture—the miniature guillotine used to “punch” visitors' tickets, the eighteenth-century Witch's Chair, the hanging cage, the hooded henchman—if nothing else, the[…]”

“[In the evil Boodkeep,] near the hall that leads to the tortury, you see […]”

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