dortour
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʊə(ɹ)/
Noun
dortour (plural dortours)
- Alternative form of dorter
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- ”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 m (oblique plural dortours, nominative singular dortours, nominative plural dortour)
- dormitory (room designed as sleeping quarters)
Descendants
- English: dortoir, dortour (borrowed)
- French: dortoir