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Recent Examples of friary
Historical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Experts say the ruins may be from the friary of St. Saviours, which was founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256, but its exact location had always been a mystery.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
Archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavate the remains of friars buried in the grounds of the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
Put simply, the worms were much more common among the residents of the Augustinian friary.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Experts say the ruins may be from the friary of St. Saviours, which was founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256, but its exact location had always been a mystery.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
Archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavate the remains of friars buried in the grounds of the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
Put simply, the worms were much more common among the residents of the Augustinian friary.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for friary
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As a result, the area is especially rich in monasteries that, Dalla Ragione knew, had old gardens and orchards that had escaped the farm consolidations over the past half-century thanks to their isolated locations—and their unwillingness to sell their land to agribusiness.Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Originally a 17th-century imperial palace, the Lama Temple was converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in 1744.Livia Hengel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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During the two decades before the mass possession at Loudun, the Ursulines, originally a very active and public order, had been forced into the cloister.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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But even within the cloisters of the monastery and behind the walls of its garden, with the city outside, there is also a solitude around each of the monks.Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
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All guests of La Ferme have access to the facilities of the abbey and a shuttle is available to transport them back and forth.Laurie Werner, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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The Irish monk Columba settled on Iona in the sixth century and founded an abbey that became a center of Gaelic Christianity.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Friary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friary. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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