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Cloistered sister
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nun
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Etymology 1 n. 1 A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister. 2 By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions. Etymology 2 ...
Usage examples of nun.
She related to me in the most assuring manner that the handsomest of all the nuns in the convent loved her to distraction, gave her a French lesson twice a-day, and had amicably forbidden her to become acquainted with the other boarders.
Das war die Wahrheit, und sie war die schwerste aller Lasten, die es nun zu tragen galt.
You shall hear the history of an amour that lasted for two years with the fairest and the best of all the nuns of Venice.
Exile anchoress turns out to be just as much of a fraud as the ministering nun in the hospice for the dying.
Whitford should be on him and his, till they helped the poor in the spirit of the nuns of Whitford, and the Nun-pool ran up to Ashy Down.
Pique--Reconciliation--The First Meeting--A Philosophical Parenthesis My beautiful nun had not spoken to me, and I was glad of it, for I was so astonished, so completely under the spell of her beauty, that I might have given her a very poor opinion of my intelligence by the rambling answers which I should very likely have given to her questions.
Besides the Nun, our female members include a sinister Virgin Huntress who seems to have wreaked mayhem or worse on one of the auberge counselors in order to qualify as a recidivist, and an extremely cautious ex-Meta Lady who is, at the moment at least, content to remain just one of the boys.
The man with all the pots and pans on his bicycle, the nun eating the baguette as she trundles along, the old woman shooing the geese, the businessman in his car eating a cake and attempting to look important.
When she had left us, the nun began to weep bitterly, accusing herself of the murder of the lay-sister, and thinking that she saw hell opening beneath her feet.
When I was alone with the nun, whose face filled me with such burning recollections, I began to speak of her health, and especially of the inconveniences attached to child-birth.
It is very natural for me to suppose that to the two thoughtless acts of which you have been guilty, you have added another not less serious, namely, that of having boasted of your exploits with the other nuns, and I do not want to be the butt of your jokes in cell or parlour.
Then Boule le Suif, in low, humble tones, invited the nuns to partake of her repast.