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Hotel Peter and Paul Set in architecturally rich Faubourg Marigny, the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent that dates back to the late 1800s.
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AFAR Media, 30 Dec. 2025
Housed in a former convent, luxe Villa Paola has tranquil gardens and its own beach club.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
In 2015, Perry famously became embroiled in a years-long fight to buy a convent in Los Angeles.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2025
But when the choir travels to the countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2025
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AFAR Media, 30 Dec. 2025
Housed in a former convent, luxe Villa Paola has tranquil gardens and its own beach club.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
In 2015, Perry famously became embroiled in a years-long fight to buy a convent in Los Angeles.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2025
But when the choir travels to the countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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Matcha soon spread through Zen monasteries, where it was believed to generate greater enlightenment than long hours of meditation.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Jan. 2026
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Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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 21 Jan. 2026.
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