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Recent Examples of prioryWhen the Leominster stool was moved to its new position in the priory in 2004, locals held a service of penitence.—Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022 Hotels are equally swoon-worthy, such as the deeply romantic Hotel Fontevraud, the former priory in the historic monument of Fontevraud Royal Abbey, which dates to the 12th century.—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022 Much of the monk's writing concerned the priory's day-to-day operations—including a detailed account of rebuilding the cathedral's choir after a fire in 1174—as well as disputes with neighboring houses and an Archbishop of Canterbury.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2022 With the trip, VistaJet Members call La Verrière, a wine estate and ninth-century priory, their home base.—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2021 See all Example Sentences for priory
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
Originally a 17th-century imperial palace, the Lama Temple was converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in 1744.
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
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.
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