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minchery Hist.|ˈmɪntʃərɪ|
Forms: 7 mincherie, minchionrea, 8 minshery, 9 mynchery, 8– minchery.
[f. minchen + -ry.
First recorded as the proper name of the conventual building at Littlemore near Oxford, and thence adopted in general application by archaizing writers.]
1661Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 403 An antient house called Mincherie, or Minchionrea, that is ‘the place of nunns’, founded there of old time. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 84 A great many..Bones of Men, etc., found at the Minshery by Littlemore. 1841F. E. Paget Tales of Village (1852) 225 Upon condition that a mynchery (as the Saxon nunneries were called) should be forthwith erected. 1893W. D. Macray Catal. Bodl. MSS. v. iii. 474 The view of Littlemore Minchery is given in three states. |