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What is a nunnery?

What is a nunnery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) a place of residence for nuns; a convent
  2. (slang, obsolete) a brothel
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Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.
And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
There have of course been assumptions, that had she lived within a nunnery, this could never have happened.
The Taliban attack in Kabul would have taken place even if she was sitting morosely alone in a nunnery dressed in black and eating nettles.
Rosamond died in or about 1176 and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar.

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