mother house
Americannoun
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a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
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a self-governing convent having authority over other houses.
Etymology
Origin of mother house
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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She remains at the mother house in Saint-Aignan sur Roë, in western France.
From Fox News • Dec. 8, 2018
But the Little Sisters refused to accept them and kept Saint Michel in place in the mother house.
From Fox News • Dec. 8, 2018
“That was a life-changing experience,” said Smith, who went on to work many years in Kansas City’s poorest neighborhoods and now lives retired in a Sisters of Loretto mother house in Kentucky.
From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2016
Then what she calls providence placed her in a Daughters of St. Paul mother house in Culver City, Calif., virtually next door to Hollywood.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2013
As to the mother house, it is asserted on honor that up to 1838 not even as much as a curio had been sent there.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton
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