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Topic: RELIGION

Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: covent, from Latin conventus 'group of people who have come together', from convenire; CONVENIENT

convent

 noun
     
con‧vent [countable]
RRTBB a building or set of buildings where nuns live
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