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Recent Examples of monastery
Built on the former site of Royal Charterhouse Palace, which once housed guests visiting the village of Valldemossa’s 14th-century monastery, the hotel has preserved that antique feeling.
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
The most significant damage to cultural heritage sites appears to have occurred in and around Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city and the home of many ancient monasteries and palaces.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Which explains why Lochlan is keen to stay in the monastery’s insulating cocoon.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
The most significant damage to cultural heritage sites appears to have occurred in and around Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city and the home of many ancient monasteries and palaces.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Which explains why Lochlan is keen to stay in the monastery’s insulating cocoon.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monastery
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The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.—
Diana Budds,
Architectural Digest,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Since then, he’s injected his flair into Venetian jewels like Abbazia San Gregorio, a former Benedictine abbey and the home of Diane von Furstenburg in Palazzo Brandolini-Giustinian.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025
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Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.—
Catherine Musemeche,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Monastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monastery. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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