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dortour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʊə(ɹ)/

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dorter.
    alt of dorter
    • ”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.” 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
    • Into their cloysters now he broken had, Through which the monckes he chaced here and there, And them pursu'd into their dortours sad 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

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dortours Number=Plur lexicographic