Conciergerie
.(French.) The office or room of a concierge or porter’s lodge; a state prison. During the Revolution it was the prison where the chief victims were confined prior to execution.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.