friary
Americannoun
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friaries
plural
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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
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However, the Richard III Society and University of Leicester archaeologists decided to investigate suggestions the king had actually been buried in the former Greyfriars friary in the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
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
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
In the town, not far from St. Antony's little friary, there was one day a meeting of Franciscan and Dominican Friars for an important ceremony.
From Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light by Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth) Barclay
Many friaries were even outfitted with running water systems—a luxury absent from even aristocratic households of the time—to allow the friars to wash their hands.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
But enough has been written to show the origin and growth of libraries among the religious both of the abbeys and the friaries.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
He founded three friaries and he set himself to crush the Lollards.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
I replied that I had heard that all the friaries had been broken up and the brothers dismissed; whereupon he sighed, and said it was too true.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
From that time there has always been an organized body of English Dominicans, again and again reduced almost to extinction, but ever surviving; it now has half a dozen thriving friaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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