The story
- Old French · derived fromchanterie
- Middle English · inherited fromchaunterie
- English todaychantry
From Middle English chaunterie, from Old French chanterie, from chanter (“to sing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
chantry
Today it means: An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people. Full definition →
Middle English chaunterie ← Old French chanterie