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A brothel.

Etymology: Since the Elizabethan era, nun has been slang for a prostitute (ref. William Faulkner, "Requiem for a Nun"), and a nunnery referred to a brothel.

See also: Abbess, Bordello, Brothel, Nun, Whorehouse
"Polly Adler, in her memoir 'A House is Not a Home,' tells of her time as the abbess of the Big Town's poshest nunnery."

Walter Winchell, 1953
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A) antiquated meaning: the female version of a monastery
B) a place where virgin girls past age 20 gather and socialize.
Why are you in a nunnery definition b) did you consider going to a nunnery definition a)?
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An alternate word for jibberish thanks to autocorrect!
Sydney speaks more nunneries then she does English! 😂
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Where they make the nuns
"The Catholic hospital is located next to the Nunnery"
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Nunnery a building filled with chicks who pray all day long, and suck on whiskey bottles at night.
Let's go over to the nunnery, and convert the lesbians.
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