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A nunnery. (Anglo-Saxon, minicem, a nun.) Sometimes it means an ale- or road-house.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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