Malebolʹge (4 syl.).

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.

Malakoff (in the Crimea)
Malambruno
Malaprop (Mrs.)
Malbecco
Malbrouk or Marlbrough (Marlbro)
Malcolm
Maldine (French)
Male
Male Sapphires
Male suada Fames
Malebolge
Malecasta
Maleger [wretchedly thin]
Malengin [guile]
Malepardus
Malherbe’s Canons of French Poetry
Maliom
Malkin
Mall or Pall Mall (London)
Mall Supper (A)
Mallows

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