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friary

/frahy-uh-ree/US // ˈfraɪ ə ri //UK // (ˈfraɪərɪ) //

修院,修修院,修士院,修会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fri·ar·ies.

    • : a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
    • : a brotherhood of friars.

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Examples

  • A search was then instituted through the friary and its grounds, and finally the Huguenots succeeded in discovering the body.

  • At a short distance west, a residence occupying part of the site, are remains of a Carmelite friary, founded here in 1240.

  • It occurred in the chief house of the Friary, then a district declining fast in respectability.

  • No; he stayed just as humble and retiring as he was in the days when he used to wash dishes in the mountain friary.

  • Huts of mud and timber, as mean as the huts around them, rose within the rough fence and ditch that bounded the Friary.