Brewer's: Malebolge

(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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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