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dorter: Monastic dormitory.
dosseret: block above a capital, as used in Byzantine and Romanesque architecture to help carry the voussoirs of the above arcade.
double pile: a house two rooms thick in plan.

 


Reredorter(lit. behind the dormitory): Latrines in a monastery or abbey, usually placed east of the cloister.ReredosPainted and/or sculpted screen behind and above an altar.

dorter A monastic dormitory. engaged column A half-column set into a wall or other flat surface. feretory A chapel containing the shrine for a saint's relics.

See also: Cloister, Abbey, Classical, Gable, Pediment

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