单词 | dortour |
释义 | † dortourdortern. Obsolete exc. Historical. a. A sleeping-room, bed-chamber, dormitory; esp. that of a monastery. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > parts of monastery > [noun] > dormitory dortourc1290 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom > dormitory dortourc1290 dormitory1485 dormer1605 dortory1636 common chamber1684 dorm1900 sleeping-quarters1919 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 286/278 Of þe dortore he axede him: ȝwat were þare is dede. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 256 Þou may not ligge & slepe as monke in his dortoure. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 147 His deeth saugh I by reuelacioun, Seith this frere, at hoom in oore dortour. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 803/26 Hoc dormitorium, a dorter. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xii. sig. Kk2v The Monckes he..Pursu'd into their dortours sad. View more context for this quotation 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 645 The magitians commaund that the greeued party be included in his Dortor or Bed-chamber. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 23 Jan. (1974) VIII. 26 I saw the Dortoire and the cells of the priests. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iii. 80 Giving me somewhat over to the building of our dortour. 1891 Farrar in Sund. Mag. 118 The staircase leading up to the Dorter. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes ii, in Wks. sig. Cc The mouth is assinde, to be the tounges dorter. a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1641) 384 A cemetary, that is, a great dortor. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 71 They are dead tenets..and we will not..call them up from their dorters againe. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > dormitory officer > [noun] dortourerc1430 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers > bedmaker dortourerc1430 bed-maker1465 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xlvi. 160 But it displeseth me gretliche that she is dortowrere there, and maketh here beddes as chamberere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1290 |
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