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cavern

/ˈkæv.ɚn/ noun B2
  1. A large cave.
  2. An underground chamber.
  3. A large, dark place or space. · a dark cavern of a shop

Plural caverns

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I searched the caverns up and down,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 15 · C1
Aided by the remaining fragment, I guessed the rest; measuring the length of the lines by those of the paper, and divining the hidden meaning by means of what was in part revealed, as we are guided in a cavern by the small ray of light above us.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 197 · C1
Then, once free, from the day and hour and moment when he was so, he could have but one only thought, which was, to gain Monte Cristo by some means, and remain there alone under some pretext which would arouse no suspicions; and once there, to endeavor to find the wonderful caverns, and search in the appointed spot,—the appointed spot, be it remembered, being the farthest angle in the second opening.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 202 · C1
I see it in the depths of the inner cavern.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 206 · C1

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