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Monastery
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; - more rarely applied to such a house for females.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Monastery'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/monastery.html. 1828.