tortury

Definitions

A place where torture is performed.

rare

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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