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malebolge (iou)



malebolge noun. literary. M19.
[Italian Malebolge, from male fem. pl. of malo evil + bolge pl. of bolgia lit. 'sack, bag', the name given in Dante's Inferno to the eighth circle in hell, consisting of ten rock-bound concentric circular trenches, esp. with allus. to Canto xviii.]
A pool of filth; a hellish place or condition.