adit
Also used in the same story as "salle." An "adit" is a near-horizontal entrance shaft to a mine.
This is yet another word that it's possible I've encountered before; it has a vague ring of familiarity to it.
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Adam
I don’t know if this is why its familiar to you, but it is used by W.H. Auden in ‘England to me is my own tongue’:
“adits were entrances which led/down to the outlaws, to the others”
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