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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
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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
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Born at Nola near Naples, he entered in his fifteenth year the Dominican friary.
The Age of the Reformation
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It might have happened in a friary all the same.
The gathering
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Thousands of people from the North attend the friary and its peace and reconciliation centre.
The Irish Times
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However, the guardian of the friary has confirmed there would be no more retreats next year.
The Irish Times
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There was no building back then, just a Portakabin in the grounds of the Capuchin friary.
The Irish Times
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Sir, -I was walking to work the other morning and I passed the local Franciscan friary.
The Irish Times
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During excavation work on the Cecelia Street site, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a 13th century friary.
The Irish Times
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FOURTEEN priests were kept in the Suzdal friary prison, chiefly for having been untrue to the orthodox faith.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating a site in Dublin's Temple Bar have found the remains of a 13th century Augustinian friary.
The Irish Times
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Go over a small bridge, turn right at a T-junction and continue to the friary carpark overlooking Sheephaven Bay.
The Irish Times
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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
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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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