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Definition of Almonries
1. almonry [n] - See also: almonry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Almonries
Literary usage of Almonries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... when pilgrims were many, and when the great monastic ages were the only
hostelries and almonries of the poor. They made as much poverty as they cured, ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"St. Margaret's also has risen under the shadow of the Abbey, and a crowd of other
buildings besides—walls, gate-houses, almonries, towers—an enormous pile, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"... 387 priests, 144 students, 2 choir brothers, and 123 lay brothers. The present
number of foundations is 34. There are 15 almonries or ..."
4. A History of Nursing: The Evolution of Nursing Systems from the Earliest by Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock (1907)
"... be distributed yearly . . . and kept almonries at the four gates of the city,
which were furnished with several metal vessels, cots, pillows, bedding, ..."
5. History of the People of the Netherlands by Petrus Johannes Blok (1907)
"The large disbursements of the almonries, amounting in 1660 at Amsterdam for the
Reformed alone to 238000 guilders, exclusive of the distribution to the ..."
6. Walks in London by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1883)
"The Abbey Church formerly arose a magnificent apex to a royal palace, surrounded
by its own greater and lesser sanctuaries and almonries ; its bell-towers, ..."
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