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nunnery

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Definition of nunnery

as in convent

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Recent Examples of nunnery Nash points to everything from visits to a working nunnery in Greece to high-profile events like the Monaco Grand Prix. — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026 All four women are virgins and have joked about calling their home the nunnery. — Skye Battles, Wired News, 17 Apr. 2026 The property was once a 19th-century Catholic school and church campus, complete with a rectory and nunnery, and each room has a rotary phone and other touches of the not-so-distant past. — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026 Monasteries and nunneries have long been oases of quiet contemplation in a world overrun by distractions. — Avedis Hadjian, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nunnery

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Originally a convent and an 18th century palazzo, today the hotel is an iconic Italian landmark that’s reflective of Bulgari’s bold and contemporary style.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Story follows La Parda who joins forces with 12 political prisoners to form a women’s choir, using it as a cover to escape from the Cabildo prison-convent.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

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Historically, such spaces were often features of religious buildings around the world including monasteries and convents, keeping animals out and fresh water, herbs, vegetables, and flowers safely inside.

— Michael James Gardner, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2026
For more than a century, a suite of murals by Symbolist painter Odilon Redon have decorated the library of the Abbaye de Fontfroide, an 11th-century former monastery in the South of France.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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The Suite Del Priore – named for its setting in the old priory – has original frescoes and cloister views; the Suite Dell’Eremita has its own lemon grove.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The town served as a Genoese naval outpost during the medieval rivalry with Pisa, and the hotel’s arched colonnades of the original cloister still stand atop rooms that face Palmaria Island or the Gulf itself.

— Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 July 2026

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His decision to buy the abbey was one that came of familiarity.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The medieval abbey of Normandy’s Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal island only accessible at certain times each day, stretched from the lapping waves as though reaching for Heaven.

— Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

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