(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:46:12

Fra"ter, n. [L., a brother.] Eccl.

A monk; also, a frater house.

[R.]

Shipley.

Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.

 

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