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noun
Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
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History
Unadapted borrowing from Italian bolgia (“ditch, trench”), from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhelǵh- (“to swell”). Doublet of budge and bulge.
