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Malebolʹge (4 syl.)

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The eighth circle of Dante’s Inferno, which contained in all ten bolgi or pits.

“There is a place within the depths of hell Called Malebolge.”


Dante: Inferno, xviii.

 

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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.

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Maldine (French)
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Male Sapphires
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Malebolge
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Malepardus
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