Definition of "abbeys" []

• Plural form of abbey. (noun)

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• "In the early years of the order all Norbertine abbeys were double abbeys, that is to say, the canons lived on one side of the church and the Norbertine nuns, who had charge of the hospital for women, dwelt on the other side."
• "Such private chapels were spared the depredations that fell upon public churches and abbeys when my father remade the world."
• "Rejoin Proust's tour by visiting the abbeys of Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille and Saint-Georges de Bouscheville, perhaps taking tea at the Château de Balleroy chateau-balleroy.com, where Proust savoured Boucher's tapestries."