Both Uses
abbey
in
The Masque of the Red Death
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- When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.†
- The abbey was amply provisioned.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(abbey) a building where monks or nuns live or lived; or a church associated with such a building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Abbey can be a name.