Limbo; Limbus

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. Shak. A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools. Milton.

2. Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

3. A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea. Etym: Jamaican E limba to bend, fr. E. limber (1950)]. Often performed at celebrations, such as weddings. (1950-1996)