Assertion: monk's room | /r/Synonym | misericord
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text: Only the elderly and the sick, plus any young boys donated by their families to a monastery (they were called oblates) would be permitted to eat meat occasionally, in a special room called a misericord (meaning a "mercy"); the ordinary monks always ate together in a large refectory in total silence, while passages from the Bible were read by a monk appointed as weekly reader.