friary
Americannoun
plural
friaries-
a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
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a brotherhood of friars.
noun
Etymology
Origin of friary
1300–50; late Middle English freyry, frayry, Middle English frari < Anglo-French, Old French frairie, frarie; see friar, -y 3
Example Sentences
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Most of the dead were buried in town cemeteries or plague pits such as one on Bene't Street next to the former friary.
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023
By the mid-20th Century, what had once been a religious friary had become a site for a school, council offices and a car park.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2023
They also collected similar samples from 25 nonmonastic skeletons interred around the same time at a rural parish around a kilometer away from the friary ruins.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 18, 2022
Mr. McCarrick, who has never been criminally charged, has been living in an undisclosed location since leaving a Capuchin friary in Kansas in January.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2020
The refectory of the friary that once stood there, built of gray and reddish stones, half hid in ivy, now does duty as a barn.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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