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Meanings of friary in English

Russian
мужской монастырь
Spanish
monasterio masculino

House or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live.

мужской монастырь
Usage of friary in English
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At last, however, they emerged into the little friary in the wood.
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
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The case involved a little dissolved friary he had bought near the Cripplegate.
Sovereign
3
Born at Nola near Naples, he entered in his fifteenth year the Dominican friary.
The Age of the Reformation
4
It might have happened in a friary all the same.
The gathering
5
Thousands of people from the North attend the friary and its peace and reconciliation centre.
The Irish Times
6
However, the guardian of the friary has confirmed there would be no more retreats next year.
The Irish Times
7
There was no building back then, just a Portakabin in the grounds of the Capuchin friary.
The Irish Times
8
Sir, -I was walking to work the other morning and I passed the local Franciscan friary.
The Irish Times
9
During excavation work on the Cecelia Street site, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a 13th century friary.
The Irish Times
10
FOURTEEN priests were kept in the Suzdal friary prison, chiefly for having been untrue to the orthodox faith.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
11
ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating a site in Dublin's Temple Bar have found the remains of a 13th century Augustinian friary.
The Irish Times
12
Go over a small bridge, turn right at a T-junction and continue to the friary carpark overlooking Sheephaven Bay.
The Irish Times
13
He said the winters were cold in Paris, just as they were in England, and the friary was cold.
Angel time: the songs of the seraphim
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Every inch of it, from the friary to the petrol station, becomes a canvas on which they can create.
The Irish Times
15
Over the centuries, the friary was demolished, apart from one small stretch of wall, and its exact site lost.
The Guardian
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However, many traces of the lost Greyfriars church and the friary buildings are believed to lie under the car park.
The Guardian
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