dorter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dorter
1250–1300; Middle English dortour < Old French < Latin dormītōrium dormitory
Example Sentences
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Another habit against which bishops constantly legislated was that of having the children to sleep in the dorter with the nuns.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Thinking that some man had got in, she recoiled in alarm and fell down the dorter stairs, so that for some days she lay ill of the sudden fright as well as of the fall....
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Was she to listen meekly to chiding in the dorter, and in the frater to bear with sulks?
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Archbishop Greenfield decreed that no boys or secular persons were to sleep in the dorter with the nuns.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
And I'm not tetchy any more Sence that-air day, ef he'd a-jes a-stopped to jaw with me, They'd bin a little dorter less in my own fambily!
From Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers by Riley, James Whitcomb
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