tortury

English

Etymology

torture +‎ -y (on the model of armoury, smithy, etc) or + -ry.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɹt͡ʃəɹi/

Noun

tortury

1. (very rare) A place where torture is performed.
   • 1882, Emily Marion Harris, The lieutenant, by the author of 'Estelle', page 142:

     "Ah," answered Jack on his own account, and with the openness for which he was distinguished, "you are afraid of little things. You were frighted of the tortury." "The tortury, indeed!" replied Monica, indignantly, "that is not a little thing, and at any rate I do not call a place a tortury because another place is named an armoury."

   • 2015 April 24, Aaron Michael Kerner, Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 115:

     […] Josh and Paxton visit the "Museum Tortury." Roth presents us with the ghoulish historical instruments of torture—the miniature guillotine used to “punch” visitors' tickets, the eighteenth-century Witch's Chair, the hanging cage, the hooded henchman—if nothing else, the […]

   • 2020 March 28, Dimension 20, "Bloodlines and Lifelines (Full Episode) - Escape From the Bloodkeep Episode 5", 1:27:16:

     [In the evil Boodkeep,] near the hall that leads to the tortury, you see […]