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As the world outside begins to resemble the full-moon mating frenzy of the opalescent squid, crack open Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1948 novel about nuns eking out an existence in a 14th-century convent and one night of celibacy might not seem so bad.
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Air Mail, 14 Feb. 2026
Joyce had already been thinking about leaving the convent because of changes the church was making.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
The spa uses oils and essences from the hotel's medicinal garden, while the treatment rooms are set within the former convent's nuns' cells.
—Jenn Rice, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
It’s housed in a former 14th-century convent and was converted into a hotel in the late 19th century.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
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Air Mail, 14 Feb. 2026
Joyce had already been thinking about leaving the convent because of changes the church was making.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
The spa uses oils and essences from the hotel's medicinal garden, while the treatment rooms are set within the former convent's nuns' cells.
—Jenn Rice, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
It’s housed in a former 14th-century convent and was converted into a hotel in the late 19th century.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
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The city’s top attractions include riding the Cerro de Monserrate funicular to sweeping views and a 17th-century monastery, visiting the colonial La Candelaria neighborhood, and spending time in the Gold Museum, home to invaluable gold artifacts and insights on indigenous Muisca culture.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2026
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Late last year, Karp bought Colorado’s most expensive real estate listing, a $120 million monastery near Aspen Snowmass ski resort.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Today, visitors come to Museo di San Marco to see the frescoes and panels by Fra Angelico, as well as its courtyard, cloisters, palazzo, and garden.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2026
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But the most compelling aspect of these eight episodes, set a year after Industry sold off the Pierpoint bank that once employed most of its characters and scattered them to London’s various elite cloisters, is the sense that money has never really been the point of the show.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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One was an indictment in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of Edward III, detailing how Ela and her husband, Forde, and several other accomplices raided a Benedictine priory in 1321.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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The crime–assisting in the raid of a Benedictine priory alongside Sir Fitzpayne.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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