chapterhouse
Britishnoun
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the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
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the meeting place of a college fraternity or sorority
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The painting is extant in the chapterhouse, and is a very fair and unrestored specimen of his best style.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
On this side in later monasteries we invariably find the chapterhouse, the absence of which in this plan is somewhat surprising.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
In 1435 he died himself on the 14th of September, "die exaltacionis Sancte Crucis" as the chapterhouse entries record, in the same Château of Rouen where Jeanne d'Arc had suffered her last imprisonment.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
We have been round three sides of the cloister: on the north the church; on the east the chapterhouse and dormitory; on the south the refectory.
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
The reverend Hugh C. Love walked from the old chapterhouse of saint Mary's abbey past James and Charles Kennedy's, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and personable, towards the Tholsel beyond the ford of hurdles.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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