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:
- Into their cloysters now he broken had,
Through which the monckes he chaced here and there,
And them pursu'd into their dortours sad
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- ”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
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin dormītōrium (“dormitory”).
Noun
dortour oblique singular, m (oblique plural dortours, nominative singular dortours, nominative plural dortour)
- dormitory (room designed as sleeping quarters)