nunnery
Americannoun
plural
nunneriesnoun
Etymology
Origin of nunnery
First recorded in 1225–75, nunnery is from the Middle English word nonnerie. See nun 1, -ery
Example Sentences
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She later founded a nunnery in India focused on giving women in Tibetan Buddhism some of the opportunities reserved for monks.
From Seattle Times
The nunneries around Florence are filled with girls without dowries.
From Literature
Her father was out of the picture and her mother, a Parisian courtesan, had shuttled her daughter around France — to a boarding school, a countryside nursery, a nunnery.
From New York Times
Though they were obedient, “occasionally a note of bitterness crept out,” Hadlow said, citing letters the sisters wrote to each other marked “the nunnery.”
From Los Angeles Times
Mornings inside the nunnery are filled with the thuds of heavy footsteps and the clanking of swords as the nuns train under Ms. Lhamo’s tutelage.
From New York Times
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