Nunnery vs Covert - What's the difference?
nunnery | covert |
(archaic) a place of residence for nuns; a convent
* 1601 : III.i
*:Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
(slang, obsolete) a brothel
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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As nouns the difference between nunnery and covert
is that nunnery is a place of residence for nuns; a convent while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.As an adjective covert is
hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.nunnery
English
Noun
(nunneries)Hypernyms
* monasterySee also
* abbess * cloister * convent * nuncovert
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
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