Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
fraiter .
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- noun Alternative form of
frater house .
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Examples
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In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Between the chapter-house and the church there is a narrow room, which was the sacristy, and on the south of the chapter-house a building in two stories, the ground floor being the frater-house, where the monks retired after meals to converse, the upper room being the dortor, or dormitory, where they slept.
English Villages 1892
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