Malebolge (noun) (literary)
mal-eh-bolj
A pool of filth; a hellish place or condition.
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Alexander Beresford-Hope (1820–1887), politician and author. From Italian Malebolge, the name given by Dante ( Inferno xviii) to the eighth circle of Hell, consisting of ten rock-bound concentric circular valleys, plural of malebolgia from malo evil (from classical Latin malus: see mal-) + bolgia valley, bag.
Example sentences
“Save me from this hellish malebolge”
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