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What is a dorter?

What is a dorter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastery.
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These injunctions against the use of the dorter by seculars illustrate another aspect of the movement for enclosure.
She and Joan Tates, a novice, had not slept in the dorter with the other nuns, but in a private chamber.
They prayed together in the choir, worked together in the cloister, ate together in the frater, and slept together in the dorter.
The Bishop cut the Gordian knot for her by ordering all seculars to be turned out of the dorter.
At Gracedieu the cellaress had a boy of seven with her in the dorter.
Nor, dorter, he too mean ter die, but dats whut he got offn de Crismus tree.

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