chantries

Variant of chantry

noun pl. chantries

  1. an endowment to pay for Masses and prayers for the soul of a specified person, often the endower: an earlier term
  2. a chapel or altar endowed, esp. in the Middle Ages, for this

Origin: ME chanterie < OFr: see chant

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