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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to the members of various religious communities of women who, professing a life of poverty and self-denial, went about in coarse gray clothing (of undyed wool), reading the Scriptures and exhorting the people.
  • noun [Only Beguin.] A member of a community of men founded on the same general principle of life as that of the Beguines (see 1).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See beghard.

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