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‖ laura Christian Antiq.|ˈlɔːrə|
[Gr. λαύρα, lane, passage, alley.]
An aggregation of detached cells, tenanted by recluse monks under a superior, in Egypt and the desert country near the Jordan.
1727–52in Chambers Cycl. 1819Southey in Q. Rev. XXII. 66 Like one of the eastern Lauras—an assemblage of separate cells, each inhabited by a recluse. 1845Petrie Eccl. Archit. Irel. 425 These [separate cells] formed a Laura, like the habitations of the Egyptian ascetics. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. v. 170 It would have perished in some lonely laura of desert cenobites. |