dortour

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/ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʊə(ɹ)/

A form of dorter — A bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastery.

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Meanings

noundortour (plural dortours)

plural dortours

  1. alternativeAlternative form of dorter.

    Into their cloysters now he broken had, Through which the monckes he chaced here and there, And them pursu'd into their dortours sad

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    ”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.”

    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
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APA

dortour. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dortour

MLA

“dortour.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dortour. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dortour,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dortour.

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