: a local community or house of a religious order or congregation
especially
: an establishment of nuns
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Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2024
One of the nation’s biggest nonprofit housing developers plans to start converting part of an empty convent into 45 apartments for low-income seniors, a project the town has embraced after rebuffing a much larger versions in the past.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Unique experiences dive into the local lore, including tours of the convent and flourishing garden with Franciscan Friar Marcus.
—Annelise Sorensen, TIME, 25 July 2024
The redeployment of this onetime convent emphasized some of its most endearing quirks, too, retaining many of the murals painted on the walls—look for one suite, with a coffered ceiling festooned with pink roses, that is believed to have been where the Mother Superior would have slept.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
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The Sisters of Notre Dame lived in the convent for 100 years before the building was sold in 1995.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2024
One of the nation’s biggest nonprofit housing developers plans to start converting part of an empty convent into 45 apartments for low-income seniors, a project the town has embraced after rebuffing a much larger versions in the past.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Unique experiences dive into the local lore, including tours of the convent and flourishing garden with Franciscan Friar Marcus.
—Annelise Sorensen, TIME, 25 July 2024
The redeployment of this onetime convent emphasized some of its most endearing quirks, too, retaining many of the murals painted on the walls—look for one suite, with a coffered ceiling festooned with pink roses, that is believed to have been where the Mother Superior would have slept.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convent. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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