Nunnery

The Darlington building has much older associations with monastic orders and stands in a street called Nunnery Lane.

Council orders cabbies to smarten up 2010

One of the most important buildings is known as the Nunnery, reminding us at once of the collection of buildings of that name at Uxmal.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Buddhist temple is known as the Nunnery of the White Bird, Po-ch'iao

Myths and Legends of China 1909

For a real good tongue-pie a Nunnery is the place to go to.

The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909 Anatole France 1884

Duke by a hooded and spectacled old lady, who sat reading a devout book in the outer hall which divided these apartments (usually called the Nunnery) from the rest of the house.

Peveril of the Peak 1822

Being now destined for the former purpose, the key was delivered to the Duke by a hooded and spectacled old lady, who sat reading a devout book in the outer hall which divided these apartments (usually called the Nunnery) from the rest of the house.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

Hamlet's "Get Thee to a Nunnery" loses a lot unless you realise that "Nunnery" was an Elizabethan slang term for a whorehouse, in addition to it's, er, Convent-ional meaning.

All's Well That Ends Well Zoe Brain 2005

Hamlet's "Get Thee to a Nunnery" loses a lot unless you realise that "Nunnery" was an Elizabethan slang term for a whorehouse, in addition to it's, er, Convent-ional meaning.

Archive 2005-12-01 Zoe Brain 2005

They are known as the "Nunnery," which we think is a very absurd name.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

There was a private school in Andover, of wide reputation in its time, known to the irreverent as the "Nunnery," but bearing in professional circles the more stately name of Mrs. Edwards's School for Young

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various