monastic
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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
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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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