Plural of fratery; communal dining halls or meeting places of religious brotherhoods.
From 'fratery,' derived from 'frater,' the Latin term for brother and medieval monastic dining hall. The plural form indicates multiple such communal spaces within religious communities.
Just as monasteries had multiple 'fraters' for dining, they also had multiple spaces called 'frateries' for various communal purposes—these were essential to monastic life because isolation was broken up by shared meals and prayers.
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