nanner, nonnerie, nonnery

[Fr. nonnerie, from nonne =a nun (q. v.).] 1. A house for nuns; a cloister in which women under a vow of perpetual chastity, and devoted to religious duties, reside during life. 12. The term sometimes applied to the triforium or gallery between the aisles of a church and the clerestory; so called from the situation of the nuns' choir in some convents. nun-nish, a. [Eng. nun; -ish.] Of or pertaining to nuns; characteristic of or becoming nuns. "All three daughters of Merwaldus, king of Westmer cians, entred the profe ion and vow of nunnish virgin. itie."- Fox : Book of Martyrs , p. 120.