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  • noun Alternative form of dortour.

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Examples

  • Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window) seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.

    The New Atlantis 2002

  • Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window) seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.

    The New Atlantis 1626

  • Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window) seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.

    New Atlantis 1626

  • Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window) seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.

    Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603

  • Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window), seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.

    New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1593

  • 13 Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, 14 where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window), seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.

    The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29 1909

  • "great stinking smokes" were seen to issue from her chamber, "savouring grievously through all the dorture;" with which, however, it was suspected subsequently that a paper of brimstone and assafoetida, found among her property after her arrest, had been in some way connected.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

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