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The principal dungeon of a feudal castle. A Moorish word.
“Proximus est carcer subterraʹneus, sine ut Mauri appellant ‘Mazmorra.ʹ”—Old Latin Itinerary.
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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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