lamasery
Americannoun
plural
lamaseriesnoun
Etymology
Origin of lamasery
First recorded in 1865–70, lamasery is from the French word lamaserie.
Example Sentences
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It focuses, closely, on Peyangki, a 9-year-old Buddhist monk in a dying lamasery in a remote mountain village in Bhutan.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2014
Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there in 1942.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the memory of many of its "old boys," who have gone on to all sorts of success in life, Connecticut's Kent School still looms as New England's closest approach to a Tibetan lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
A rosy light spread above the city, above the towering lamasery, and deepened from pink to sullen red, like the flaming promise of an angry Stromboli.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
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