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- There were no books in Elinor's kitchen, not one, but they ate an excellent supper there at a wooden table that came, so Elinor assured them, from the scriptorium of an Italian monastery.†
- As far as she knew, the monks had worked at desks with sloping tops in the scriptoria of their monasteries, but she kept this information to herself.†
*monasteries = the residences of religious communities
- —Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain They had unwrapped the book.†
- Capricorn's house was a large, bulky building, which might once have been the village hall, a disused monastery, or a school.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(monastery) the residence of a religious community
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)