moutier

Then we go on and find that there is a near slope to the north-east also, so we have our "moutier" and the almost certain site of our "motte."

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

Presently we saw Ramleh, in a smoking mist, on the plain before us, flanked to the right by a tall lonely tower, that might have held the bells of some moutier of Caen or Evreux.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

The city of Darantasia was destroyed by the Saracens in the tenth century, whereupon the archbishops moved their residence to the right bank of the Isére, calling it their moutier (monastery), and it was at this place that the town of Moutiers began to be built in the second half of the tenth century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

At least there was logic here, for both moutier and monastère mean ` monastery, 'and both median and moyen convey ` middle.'

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1 1985