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A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 163
t-tree, Dormond, a large beam lying across a room :a joist or sleeper. Dormawnte tre, trabes. Prompt. Parv. Cotgrave gives in his French Diet. Treine, a dorman, or great beam. It is calledin Norfolk a dormer. Forby. Al the sommers and f/on/mH/.?, and restspleyn posts. Accouiit> of Little… … DORMER—DRESSINGS. 149 roof. There do not appear to be any dormers now existing ofan earlier date than the middle of the fourteenth century. Dormitory, Dovtcr, Dortouvc. Pb. Dormitoire, Dortoir, Ital.Domnitorio, Ger. ©cblafgcmad): a sleeping apartment; the termis generally used with reference to the…Architecture
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