fratery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A frater house; an apartment in a convent used as a dining room.

Word forms

fratery frateries fratry

Etymology

Apparently from frater + -y. Compare Italian frateria (“a brotherhood of monks”). See friar. Piecewise doublet of friary.

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