dortour

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

dortour (plural dortours)

Alternative form of dorter
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  Into their cloysters now he broken had,
  Through which the monckes he chaced here and there,
  And them pursu'd into their dortours sad
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:
  ”Yet, if the Israelite will advantage the Church by giving me somewhat over to the building of our dortour, I will take it on my conscience to aid him in the matter of his daughter.”

Old French

Etymology

From Latin dormītōrium (“dormitory”).

Noun

dortour m (oblique plural dortours, nominative singular dortours, nominative plural dortour)

dormitory (room designed as sleeping quarters)

Descendants

French: dortoir
→ English: dortoir, dortour

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