cloistress
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cloistress (plural cloistresses)
- (obsolete or literary) A nun.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Like a cloistress she will veiled walk.
References[edit]
- “cloistress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w-
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