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ab·bey
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abbacy
the office, term of office, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess -
abbatial
of or relating to an abbot, abbess, or abbey -
abbey theatre
an influential theatre in Dublin (opened 1904): associated with it were Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and O'Casey. It was destroyed by fire in 1951 but was rebuilt; it reopened in 1966 -
abingdon
a market town in S England, in Oxfordshire. Pop: 36 010 (2001) -
cluny
a town in E central France: reformed Benedictine order founded here in 910; important religious and cultural centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 4835 (2006) -
edward the confessor
Saint, 1002?–66, English king 1042–66: founder of Westminster Abbey.