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† dortour, dorter Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈdɔːtə(r)|
Forms: 3–5 dortore, 4–6 -oure, 5 -oyr, -owre, doortur, 5–7 dorture, 6– 7 -or, 7 -oir(e, 4–9 dortour, 5–9 dorter.
[a. OF. dortour, -ur, -eur, vars. of dortoir (12th c. in Littré):—L. dormītōri-um dormitory.]
A sleeping-room, bed-chamber, dormitory; esp. that of a monastery.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 286/278 Of þe dortore he axede him: ȝwat were þare is dede. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 256 Þou may not ligge & slepe as monke in his dortoure. c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 147 His deeth saugh I by reuelacioun, Seith this frere, at hoom in oore dortour. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 803/26 Hoc dormitorium, a dorter. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. xii. 24 The Monckes he..pursu'd into their dortours sad. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 499 The Magicians command that the grieved party be included in his Dortor or Bed-chamber. 1666Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 214, I saw the dortoire, and the cells of the priests. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxxiii, Giving me somewhat over to the building of our dortour. 1891Farrar in Sund. Mag. 118 The staircase leading up to the Dorter.
attrib.1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 The dorture doore was made open vnto hir by gods power. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 22 b, It will make them iolly long winded to trot vp and downe the Dorter Staires.
b. transf. and fig.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 201 The mouth is assynde, to be the tounges dorter. a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1641) 384 A cemetary, that is, a great dortor. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 71 They are dead tenets..and we will not..call them up from their dorters againe.
Hence † ˈdortourer, one who has charge of a dormitory; a ‘bed-maker’.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xlvi. (1869) 160 But it displeseth me gretliche that she is dortowrere there, and maketh here beddes as chamberere. |