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priory Noun pl -ories a religious house where certain orders of monks or nuns live
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| She might have been left in the Priory to the end of time had not the high-toned governess threatened to send in her resignation. He, left alone, had promptly fallen asleep; and thus De Montfort's men found and captured him within sight of the bell-tower of the Priory of Lewes, where the King and his royal allies lay peacefully asleep, after their night of wine and dancing and song. Right glad was the traveller to see the high tower of Christchurch Priory gleaming in the mellow evening light, and gladder still when, on rounding a corner, he came upon his comrades of the morning seated astraddle upon a fallen tree. |
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priory - religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress