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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
friary
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Now is not the time to arrive at the friary.
▪ To my left, steps led up to a hummocky cliff edge, on which reposed the fragmented remains of a Franciscan friary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Friary

Friary \Fri"ar*y\, a. [From Friar, n.] Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. [Obs.]
--Camden.

Friary

Friary \Fri"ar*y\, n. [OF. frerie, frairie, fr. fr[`e]re. See Friar.]

  1. A monastery; a convent of friars.
    --Drugdale.

  2. The institution or practices of friars.
    --Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
friary

1530s, from Middle French, from Old French frarie, from Medieval Latin fratria "a fraternity," from frater (see brother).

Wiktionary
friary

a. Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent. n. house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live

WordNet
friary

n. a monastery of friars

Usage examples of "friary".

XVII FOURTEEN priests were kept in the Suzdal friary prison, chiefly for having been untrue to the orthodox faith.

He would just have nice time to pop down to Barton Street, see Ellis, pop up to Fripp Street and question Mrs Bowerman, and return to Friary Road Police Station to make a full report of his investigations to date.

Saturday morning, at Friary Road Police Station, there was some anxiety and not a little indignation.

But it had been a terrible shock to them when the superintendent at Friary Road had rung them up to inquire if Sergeant Chandler were ill.

Cobb, a widow lady, who lived in an agreeable sequestered place close by the town, called the Friary, it having been formerly a religious house.

Market Street, drove by the Friary and parked outside the Garda Station.

The whole world became a peaceful darkness with a voice absently explaining absently, as if other things, more important, more private, drew his thoughts away friary what he said But she did not worry about that.

Those unable to find shelter in one of the friaries, nunneries, public houses, or private homes on either side of the Tweed were obliged to live under canvas, encamped on the common lands that extended out into the surrounding countryside.