dortour

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

dortour (plural dortours)

1. 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

Etymology

From Latin dormītōrium (“dormitory”).

Noun

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

1. dormitory (room designed as sleeping quarters)

Descendants

• French: dortoir
• → English: dortoir, dortour