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monastery

[mon-uh-ster-ee] / ˈmɒn əˌstɛr i /


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Anthropological analysis showed that the man buried beneath the monastery floor on Margaret Island was in his early twenties.

From Science Daily

One picture of the Vikings, she says, is of them "being raiders and pillagers and attacking monasteries - then they turn into these more peaceful Norse settlers".

From BBC

Ahead of our return to the city, we drive back up the ridge, back through Burguete, the inn still shuttered, and up to Roncesvalles, where the old monastery looms like a sentinel over the pass.

From Salon

Hildegard is best known for the music she produced in her Rhineland German monastery and for the transcriptions of her luminous visions.

From Los Angeles Times

Before joining the monastery 19 years ago, he told me, he’d worked as a sailor on Black Sea merchant ships.

From The Wall Street Journal