nunneries in English

noun
1
a building or group of buildings in which nuns live as a religious community; a convent.
You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.
synonyms:conventprioryabbeycloisterreligious community
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1. Monasteries and nunneries were relatively safe from attack until the Dissolution and would have no need for elaborate and impractical tunnels.