What's the difference between infirmarian and nunnery?

Infirmarian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.

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Nunnery


Definition:

  • (n.) A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having snapped the picture of the reverend in flagrante, the two ran off in their underpants "through a nunnery at midnight" to get the story safely into the paper.
  • (2) The state news agency Sana reported on Monday that six nuns, including the Maaloula convent's mother superior Pelagia Sayaf, were trapped in the nunnery.
  • (3) In Ireland, rebel folk endures and develops, uniquely – just listen to Lizzie Nunnery's England Loves a Poor Boy .
  • (4) In both periods food supply ensued from the central kitchen of a nunnery.
  • (5) Officials from the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India, said the 20-year-old from the Dechen Chokorling nunnery killed herself at a crossroads.
  • (6) Sure, there were elements to the Spice Girls that were very obviously contrived and "for the dads", but compared with Christina Aguilera gyrating in a puddle while wearing crotchless leather chaps, which I got to witness a few years later, they practically belonged in a nunnery.
  • (7) When her bosom flutters with love for her master she returns to the nunnery.
  • (8) We then found and bought at place called Meadow Cottage in Norfolk, it had been all matter of things from a school to a nunnery.

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