Abbeylike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of an abbey.

    "Fort Tryon Park, just north of the George Washington Bridge, is the site of the Cloisters, an imposing abbeylike structure housing the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collections."

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"Fort Tryon Park, just north of the George Washington Bridge, is the site of the Cloisters, an imposing abbeylike structure housing the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collections."

Etymology

From abbey + -like.

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