conventual

Definitions

Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.

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Examples

“The noise of her steps, light⟳ as they were, attracted the stranger's notice⟳, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall⟳ as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure⟳, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.”

“The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start⟳ out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order⟳ to reduce⟳ the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have⟳ to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.”

“The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.”

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