friary
Americannoun
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a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
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a brotherhood of friars.
noun
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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
The city council and University of Leicester archaeologists excavated the site which had been a friary until its demolition in 1538.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 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
Some of the Dominicans of the friary at Berne thought that the best way to settle the affair was to have a direct revelation.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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