you can hear the bells from the priory from the other side of the village
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Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024 By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey.—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024 Over the next decade, excavations at the site unearthed dozens of graves containing ornate artifacts and human remains, including the bodies of clergy members and wealthy donors to the medieval priory.—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022 His restaurant, near the medieval priory in Cartmel, opened just across from the bakery that claimed to have invented sticky toffee pudding.—Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022 See all Example Sentences for priory
Word History
Etymology
Middle English priorie, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin prioria, from prior
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