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abbey

monastery, convent, cloister; see cloister 1. See syn. study at cloister.

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In England there was once a famous abbey, called Whitby.
It has been noticed at Woburn Abbey that the antlers are shed and replaced twice a year.
On Inishmore are remains of the abbey of Killenda.
Rottum was once the property of the ancient abbey at Rottum, 8 m.
He soon became prior of the abbey of Anchin, near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable library of the abbey, studying ecclesiastical history, especially that of Flanders.

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