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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

He is the author of “The Father and the Son: My Father’s Journey Into the Monastic Life,” which tells the story of his father, a former civil servant who entered a monastery.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 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

Monastic life in Japan is a strange anomaly.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis




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