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Detail of the 600-year-old Fra Angelico fresco of a crucifixion that is being restored at a convent outside of Florence.
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Clara Vannucci, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Vista Ostuni - Ostuni (opening summer 2025) The upcoming Vista Ostuni will be taking over a former 14th-century palazzo originally constructed as a convent in the ‘White City’ of Ostuni in Puglia.
—Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
There are hints of nuclear incident, climate collapse, AI run amok — all filtered through the narrow perspective of a survivor’s diary written in a convent where evil nuns hold sway over the worthy and unworthy alike.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Mansion also took over Club Allure, a strip club that was embroiled in controversy with a 2014 lawsuit from nuns in the nearby Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo convent.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
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Clara Vannucci, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Vista Ostuni - Ostuni (opening summer 2025) The upcoming Vista Ostuni will be taking over a former 14th-century palazzo originally constructed as a convent in the ‘White City’ of Ostuni in Puglia.
—Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
There are hints of nuclear incident, climate collapse, AI run amok — all filtered through the narrow perspective of a survivor’s diary written in a convent where evil nuns hold sway over the worthy and unworthy alike.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Mansion also took over Club Allure, a strip club that was embroiled in controversy with a 2014 lawsuit from nuns in the nearby Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo convent.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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The monastery coincidentally served as a French abbey’s outpost amid increasing tensions between France and England in the years leading up to the Hundred Years’ War.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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Nestled in the mountains, this beautiful monastery is an architectural treasure.—
Carlsen Jes,
Travel + Leisure,
1 June 2025
Noun
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With stone walls, vaulted ceilings, and Renaissance cloister, Parador is a prime example of Gothic architecture.—
Carlsen Jes,
Travel + Leisure,
1 June 2025
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The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The crime–assisting in the raid of a Benedictine priory alongside Sir Fitzpayne.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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One was an indictment in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of Edward III, detailing how Ela and her husband, Forde, and several other accomplices raided a Benedictine priory in 1321.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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