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HOODS |
Nuns |
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VESTALS |
Nuns |
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POSTULANTS |
Nuns |
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SISTERS |
Nuns |
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CONVENT |
Nuns home |
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HABITS |
Nuns’ garments at Customs? |
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UNSEATED |
Ousted nuns eat edible contents |
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TUNNELS |
Nuns let out in underground passages |
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MINORESS |
See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a. |
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NOUNS |
Nuns take in nothing but naming words |
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ORDER |
Society of nuns or the German command? |
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BARB |
A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. |
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NISSENHUT |
Making a change for the nuns is a steel shelter |
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NOVICE |
One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns,
as a probationist. |
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THEATINE |
One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who
died in 1618. |
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PRIORESS |
A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity
to an abbess. |
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URSULINE |
Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of
Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns. |
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JESUITESS |
One of an order of nuns established on the principles of
the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633. |
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NUNNERY |
A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in
which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and
Convent. |
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ABBESS |
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of
nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have
over the monks. See Abbey. |
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WIMPLE |
A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck
and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still
retained in the dress of nuns. |
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LORETTINE |
One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in
Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or
Friends of Mary at... |