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MONASTERY [13 records]

Record 1 2022-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Names
OBS

The Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarchy in Scotland. Founded as a monastery in 1128 at the end of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, the Palace of Holyroodhouse has a close association with the history of Scotland.

Key term(s)
  • Holyroodhouse Palace
  • Holyrood Palace
  • Holyrood House Palace

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d'édifices et de bâtiments
OBS

Ce palais (15e-17e siècles) fut au départ une maison d'hôte dépendant de l'abbaye. [...] le château redevint résidence royale sous le règne de Victoria.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombres de edificios
OBS

[...] residencia oficial de la familia real en Escocia [...]

OBS

Palacio de Holyroodhouse; Palacio de Holyrood: Se escriben con letra inicial mayúscula [...] los sustantivos y adjetivos que componen el nombre de entidades, organismos, departamentos o divisiones administrativas, edificios, monumentos, establecimientos públicos, partidos políticos, etc.

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Record 2 2022-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Religion (General)
DEF

The building or set of buildings occupied by ... a religious community.

OBS

... the word is often popularly restricted to a convent of women, a nunnery, a convent of men being distinguished as a monastery; but this is not warranted by historical usage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Religion (Généralités)
DEF

Maison dans laquelle vivent en communauté, sous une même règle, des religieux ou des religieuses de confession chrétienne.

PHR

couvent de Bénédictins, couvent de Capucins, couvent de Carmélites

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de construcciones
  • Religión (Generalidades)
DEF

Casa donde viven en comunidad miembros de una orden religiosa.

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Record 3 2017-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religion (General)
DEF

One of a class of persons who have offered themselves and their property to a monastery in which they live.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Religion (Généralités)
DEF

Personne qui s'est agrégée à une communauté religieuse en lui faisant donation de ses biens et en promettant d'observer un règlement, mais sans prononcer les vœux et sans abandonner le costume laïque.

Key term(s)
  • oblate

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Brewing and Malting
DEF

Brewery inside [a] Trappist monastery located in Belgium [or] Holland which produces beers that are top fermented, unpasteurized and bottle conditioned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brasserie et malterie
DEF

Brasseries belges et hollandaises situées dans des monastères de pères trappistes, où l’on produit des bières non pasteurisées, de fermentation haute, qui sont conditionnées en bouteille.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Elements
  • Doors, Windows and Openings (Building Elements)
DEF

A small round or, more usually, oval window as in the Salon de l’Oeil de Boeuf at Versailles. There are three ranges of them in the dome of St. Peter’s, Rome.

DEF

Fixed oval [or round] window, generally with surrounding moldings and ornaments, often found on Colonial Revival Houses.

CONT

The Collegio dei Nobili rises in three main storeys, the ground floor lost a little in confusion, but the windows of the two upper floors showing his favourite device since his monastery for the Theatines at Messines, of lifting the arms of the broken pediments above his windows in order to hold and excuse the oeil-de-boeuf openings in the mezzanine floor above them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'architecture
  • Ouvertures (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Lucarne, fenêtre ronde ou ovale pratiquée dans la partie supérieure d'un édifice ou dans un mur.

OBS

Pluriel : des œils(-)de(-)bœuf.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos arquitectónicos
  • Puertas, ventanas y aberturas (Elementos de edificios)
DEF

Ventana redonda u ovalada.

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Record 6 2005-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

A cheese-tasting term for a hearty, assertive, rustic flavor and/or aroma of a cheese, usually a monastery cheese or one made from ewe's or goat's milk; an excessively earthy flavor can be undesirable.

OBS

Cheese flavor compounds in this category shares qualities with those present in freshly-plowed earth or forest litter. Goat, sheep, and monastery-type cheeses may be characterized as earthy and exhibit assertive flavor and aroma.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
DEF

Se rapporte aux saveurs communiquées par le sol.

CONT

Le Cantal a le goût de son terroir. Tradition, authenticité, générosité, il domine le pays vert, celui des volcans éteints, des prairies, des forêts et des rivières. Il se présente sous forme cylindrique. Le cantal est dit «jeune» à 30 jours d'affinage en cave. Sa pâte ferme et souple prend alors une douce saveur du terroir, associée à un léger goût de lait. Cette pâte de couleur ivoire et encore tendre, se recouvre d'une fine croûte gris-blanc.

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

Since about the year 1000, the monastery of "Einsiedeln" in central Switzerland is known for its horse breeding activities and livestock trading to north(Germany, Austria) and south(northern Italy). Therefore, horses from Einsiedeln might have influenced horse populations on both sides of the alps. Einsiedler horses are also known as horses from "Schwyz" and have always been used for various services(riding, driving, field work, army).

CONT

The Einsiedeln horse, “Cavalli della Madonna”, is still bred at the monastery.

OBS

Sometimes known as the Swiss Anglo-Norman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
OBS

D'origine suisse, parfois appelé le normand suisse.

CONT

L'élevage des Einsiedler se distingue en particulier par une sélection en lignée passant par les juments. Au premier plan de la recherche se trouvent deux lignées de juments de Einsiedler, dont les données des origines permettent de remonter le cours de l'histoire jusqu'à la moitié du 19e siècle [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 8 1997-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religion (General)
DEF

Original monastery or convent of a religious community.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Religion (Généralités)
DEF

Établissement principal d'une communauté religieuse dont ont été détachées des annexes «filles».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Religión (Generalidades)
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Record 9 1996-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy and Religion
DEF

The donation(in Latin oblatio, "offering") of a child as a permanent gift to a monastery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie et religion
DEF

Action d'offrir (qqch.) à Dieu.

Spanish

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Record 10 1983-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a monastery room warmed and used as a sitting room

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 11 1983-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
DEF

a building attached to a cathedral, or monastery, in which the chapter meets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 12 1983-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

the steward of a monastery

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 13 1981-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Document Classification (Library Science)
DEF

The book in which [records or charters relating to a religious, civil, or private state] are listed or copied.

OBS

Esp. used for the records of a monastery or the book containing them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Classification des documents (Bibliothéconomie)
DEF

(...) recueil en volume (ou plus rarement en rouleau) dans lequel une institution ou un particulier a transcrit intégralement (et quelquefois par extraits) les titres de ses droits et les monuments de son histoire.

OBS

Surtout utilisé pour le registre d'un monastère ou d'une église.

Spanish

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