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DUNGEON

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUNGEON , the See also:

prison in a See also:castle keep, so called because the See also:Norman name for the latter is See also:donjon (q.v.), and the dungeons or prisons (q.v.) are generally in its lowest See also:storey.

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