Middle English Dictionary Entry
dortǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dortǒur n. Also dortur, dorter, dortre. |
| Etymology | OF dorto(u)r, beside dortoir. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The dormitory of a monastery or convent; comune ~; ~ dor; ~ flor.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)285/260 : Womme..ȝwy nartþov In þine bedde a-slepe In þe dortour with þine fere?
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.293 : He sygh tweye aungels come into here dortour [vr. dorter; L dormitorium] and slee alle þe monkes.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.307 : For þe oratorie, þe dortour [L dormitorio], þe freytour, and þe werkhous.
- (1394) Will York in Sur.Soc.4186 : Also vj s..to the Nunry of Keldholme to thar dorter.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1855 : 'His deeth saugh I by reuelacioun,' Seyde this frere, 'at hom in oure dortour.'
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.256 : Þou may not ligge & slepe as monke in his dortoure.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)127 : Dortowre: Dortorium.
- (1442) Visit.Alnwick51 : Ye suffre nether man nere womman seculere..to lye in your dortour be nyghtes tyme..that dayly whan complyne is done ye..go to the dorter and to your beddes.
- a1450 Ordin.Nuns(2) (Vsp A.25)150/6 : Þe priores & þe couent sal cum vp in-to þe dortour.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)181/6 : Þer was a religious man þat lay in his dortur with his brethir.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)186/26 : He drew hym oute of his bed be þe hare, & keste hym apon þe dortur flure.
- (c1450) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.131 : The keper of the cloyster and dortour dores.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)97/12 : He loued so wel þe comon refeccion, þat whan he was in grete languor..he wold not..ete in þe dortour.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)6.95 (v.1:p.83) : Though .. I may not commen into the chirch where thi laude .. is solempnely exercised, yit shal I goon into the chapitre hous, into the dortour, and into the freytoure.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)6.96 (v.1:p.84) : The dore of the dortoure was to lowe for his hyghnesse..with the busynesse of the lesson heryng.
- a1475(1456) ?Bokenham Lineage Clare (ArmsV Clare Roll)p.475 : Dortour, chapiter hous, and fraitour.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)85/7-10 : The Abbesse & alle sustres hole & alle oþer schullen lye in þe comune dortre..The bedde for þe abbesse be made in soche place of þe dortoure þat sche may se..alle oþer beddis of þe dortoure wiþoute any stoppynge.