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noun (lamaseries)
- A monastery for lamas in Tibet and Mongolia.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 490:
- :purposeful melody, reminding veterans of duty on the Himalayan station, of transmundane melody performed upon ancient horns fashioned from the thigh-bones of long-departed priests, in wind-beaten lamaseries miles above the level of a sea at this distance belonging more to legend than geography.
Etymology: From lamaserie, irregular formation from lama.
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