dorter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dorter
1250–1300; Middle English dortour < Old French < Latin dormītōrium dormitory
Example Sentences
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Atwater enjoins “that infants and small children be not admitted into the dorter of the nuns.”
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
It is common to find among episcopal injunctions to nunneries one to the effect that no secular woman is to sleep in the dorter with the nuns.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
One day she saw him in the dorter, and since she knew him, she boxed his ears.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Injunctions order them to be excluded now from dorter, now from frater, now from fermery, according as visitation showed them to be in the habit of entering one part of a house or another.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Moreover, I, the said Undersigned do solumly Swear all this to Margaret Kendall, the dorter and Lawfull Protectur of the said Wife, to wit, Mrs. Kendall.
From The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
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