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DORMITORY (Lat. dormitorium, a sleeping place) , the name given in monasteries to the monks' sleeping apartment. Some-times it formed one long room, but was more generally subdivided into as many cells or partitions as there were monks. It was generally placed on the first floor
church
great
long gallery, which in those days was occasionally utilized as a dormitory . The name " dormitory " is also applied to the large bedrooms with a number of beds, in schools and similar modern
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