lamasery
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of lamasery
First recorded in 1865–70, lamasery is from the French word lamaserie.
Example Sentences
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It focuses, closely, on Peyangki, a 9-year-old Buddhist monk in a dying lamasery in a remote mountain village in Bhutan.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2014
His lamasery has been occupied for 300 years with but one project�finding and listing j the 9 billion names of God.
From Time Magazine Archive
In four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as in the regent's vision, there was a peasant house with a gabled roof, there was a winding road and, beyond, a three-storied lamasery whose golden dome sparkled with turquoise tiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The city lay before him, patches of gloom and shadow, beneath the dark bulk of the lamasery.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
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