Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Laura"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Laura \Lau"ra\, n. [LL., fr. Gr. (?) lane, defile, also, a kind
of monastery.] (R. C. Ch.)
A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood
occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. --C.
Kingsley.
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