friary
Americannoun
PLURAL
friaries-
a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
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a brotherhood of friars.
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of friary
1300–50; late Middle English freyry, frayry, Middle English frari < Anglo-French, Old French frairie, frarie; 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
The city council and University of Leicester archaeologists excavated the site which had been a friary until its demolition in 1538.
From BBC
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
Old Hall, which dates back to the 16th Century, was a convent, an army barracks and a friary before it was bought in 1974 by 14 families who formed the community.
From BBC
The difference may be due to monks manuring crops in friary gardens with their own faeces, the study suggests.
From BBC
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