lauran.
/ˈlɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈlɔrə/ Church History.
An aggregation of detached cells, tenanted by recluse monks under a superior, in Egypt and the desert country near the Jordan.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Laura, a Place where Monks antiently dwelt.
1819 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 22 66 Like one of the eastern Lauras—an assemblage of separate cells, each inhabited by a recluse.
1845 G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland 420 These [separate cells] formed a Laura, like the habitations of the Egyptian ascetics.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. v. 170 It would have perished in some lonely laura of desert cenobites.
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