The refectory of a monastery, or chief room of a frater-house. A frater is a member of a fraternity or society of monks. (Latin, frater, a brother.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.