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monastic

[muh-nas-tik] / məˈnæs tɪk /
ADJECTIVE
with communal life
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When Kristen Hartke wrote about soup master Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette and we published his Monastic Garlic Soup, I slurped it up with enthusiasm.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

Later that decade, Alice Coltrane recorded her solo debut record, “A Monastic Trio,” in a studio in the basement.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018

Monastic seriousness isn’t the only way to take in a show.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2018

She was the first with the widely copied "Monastic" dress, a full and shapeless forerunner of the pleated Grecian sheath and all the other unwaisted dresses.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wrote other books afterwards—Sacred and Legendary Art, Legends of the Monastic Orders, and Legends of the Madonna—but none so good as her Shakespearian criticisms.J.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh




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