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Hotel de Pavie, once a convent for nuns, that offered shelter and protection to pilgrims and travelers is today a glamarous experience to partake in.
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Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
But during the 13th century, Morlaix residents built a church and later a convent, and this building stands today as the oldest religious monument in the city.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
The Hotel’s History The boutique hotel is situated in a 14th century palazzo that was originally built as a convent; 500 years later it was transformed by Sister Maria Raimonda Fuentes to shelter and provide education for underprivileged girls.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
See them In Morlaix, France, restorations of the Jacobin convent revealed hidden paintings beneath plaster, dating back to the 13th century.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
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Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
But during the 13th century, Morlaix residents built a church and later a convent, and this building stands today as the oldest religious monument in the city.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
The Hotel’s History The boutique hotel is situated in a 14th century palazzo that was originally built as a convent; 500 years later it was transformed by Sister Maria Raimonda Fuentes to shelter and provide education for underprivileged girls.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
See them In Morlaix, France, restorations of the Jacobin convent revealed hidden paintings beneath plaster, dating back to the 13th century.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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This growing network of trails goes through rhododendron forests and past monasteries and villages, giving travelers a closer look at places only accessible on foot.—
Mary Holland,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2025
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In a pivotal scene in the season finale, Piper comes to the realization that her plan to stay at a monastery for a year and study Buddhism isn't going to work.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.—
Diana Budds,
Architectural Digest,
8 Apr. 2025
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The cloister houses an herbalist doling out tisanes and tinctures and a boulangerie producing sourdough loaves from flour milled on-site.—
Jennifer Flowers,
AFAR Media,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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