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- noun Plural form of
abbey .
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Examples
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In the early years of the order all Norbertine abbeys were double abbeys, that is to say, the canons lived on one side of the church and the Norbertine nuns, who had charge of the hospital for women, dwelt on the other side.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Their habitat is ancient woods, ruined abbeys, isolated old houses and crumbling monasteries.
Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories Kate Mosse 2010
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Such private chapels were spared the depredations that fell upon public churches and abbeys when my father remade the world.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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He went to Oxford for a doctorate, studying Russian, and he began to explore the priesthood, making retreats at several Roman Catholic abbeys.
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He went to Oxford for a doctorate, studying Russian, and he began to explore the priesthood, making retreats at several Roman Catholic abbeys.
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Sigma Force confronts humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings.
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Such private chapels were spared the depredations that fell upon public churches and abbeys when my father remade the world.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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She discovered, to her surprise, that there was also a whole subset of listed properties that had been purpose-built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as asylums and psychiatric institutions, some of them in the parkland of abbeys and priories and manor farms, some of them in green fields.
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Rejoin Proust's tour by visiting the abbeys of Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille and Saint-Georges de Bouscheville, perhaps taking tea at the Château de Balleroy chateau-balleroy.com, where Proust savoured Boucher's tapestries.
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Marvel as cannons are fired, abbeys are stormed, and Lancastrians tried and beheaded – all on part of the original 1471 battle site.
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