Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nun; a woman who has vowed religious retirement. Also written
cloisteress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A nun.
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- noun obsolete A
nun .
Etymologies
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Examples
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While they were talking, a gentleman entered whom the duke had sent to Olivia, and he said, So please you, my lord, I might not be admitted to the lady, but by her handmaid she returned you this answer: Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face; but like a cloistress she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears for the sad remembrance of her dead brother.
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Olivia, and he said, "So please you, my lord, I might not be admitted to the lady, but by her handmaid she returned you this answer: Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face; but like a cloistress she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears for the sad remembrance of her dead brother."
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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Olivia, and he said: 'So please you, my lord, I might not be admitted to the lady, but by her handmaid she returned you this answer: Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face; but like a cloistress she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears for the sad remembrance of her dead brother.'
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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‘fornicatress’, ‘cloistress’, ‘jointress’ (all in Shakespeare);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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