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friary
[ frahy-uh-ree ]
noun
- a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
- a brotherhood of friars.
friary
/ ˈfraɪərɪ /
noun
- Christianity a convent or house of friars
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A search was then instituted through the friary and its grounds, and finally the Huguenots succeeded in discovering the body.
At a short distance west, a residence occupying part of the site, are remains of a Carmelite friary, founded here in 1240.
It occurred in the chief house of the Friary, then a district declining fast in respectability.
No; he stayed just as humble and retiring as he was in the days when he used to wash dishes in the mountain friary.
Huts of mud and timber, as mean as the huts around them, rose within the rough fence and ditch that bounded the Friary.
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