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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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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.
Another habit against which bishops constantly legislated was that of having the children to sleep in the dorter with the nuns.
She and Joan Tates, a novice, had not slept in the dorter with the other nuns, but in a private chamber.
Nor, dorter, he too mean ter die, but dats whut he got offn de Crismus tree.
At the same time, for better security, he ordered the nuns to be locked into their dorter every night until service time.

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