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Example sentences for: abbey

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At St-Benoît-du-Lac, look for the graceful Neo-Gothic grey-stone silhouette of the Benedictine abbey, much appreciated for the monks’ Gregorian chant.
When the castle was built atop the hill, the original city of Edinburgh grew on this ridge, reaching down in a ribbon of development toward the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the hill in the east.
They survived as part of an abbey — now the Musée National du Moyen Age, still often called by its former name, Musée de Cluny (see page 72).
A nunnery may be a monastery, an abbey, a convent, a cloister, or a priory.
With its detailed carvings, the beautiful abbey was an important center of worship but continued to have royal connections because of the surrounding hunting grounds.