dorter

American  

[dawr-ter] / ˈdɔr tər /

Or dortour

noun

1. a dormitory, especially in a monastery.

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Etymology

Origin of dorter

1250–1300; Middle English dortour < Old French < Latin dormītōrium dormitory

Example Sentences

He enjoined peace and concord among the inmates; the sisters were to treat the prioress with reverence and obedience; those who had rebelled against her were to desist and the prioress was to behave amicably to all in frater, dorter, and elsewhere.

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Matilda Sheldon, the subprioress, admitted to having left the chapter, but denied that she had done so for the reason attributed and said that she did not know of the departure of the other nuns, until she saw them in the dorter.

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In Cistercian and Cluniac houses the superior was supposed to dine in the frater and to sleep in the dorter with the other nuns, and even in Benedictine houses it was considered desirable that she should do so.

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Sometimes it was said that she failed to dine in the frater or to sleep in the dorter, sometimes that she was a poor financier, and in two cases the charge of favouritism was made; but the complaints at these sixteen houses were, on the whole, insignificant.

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She and Joan Tates, a novice, had not slept in the dorter with the other nuns, but in a private chamber.

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