A religieuse sleeps in each dortoir; the beds have not even curtains, so that there is the most perfect surveillance.
Again the searching eyes of the religieuse surveyed me; she sighed slightly.
She retired to the hills and lived as a religieuse until the Later Han.
Im like a leopard and Im like a poet and Im like a religieuse and Im like an outlaw.
It is all very well for Mademoiselle Susan, but you are not created for a religieuse.
The religieuse hovered sleepily in the background with an overdue and neglected dose.
To a girl in the heyday of youth and beauty the life of a religieuse seems ridiculous.
She became a religieuse very young, and declared her intention of never marrying.
The religieuse slipped to the floor at the girl's side, and covered the small hands with kisses.
"a nun, a religious woman," 1690s, from French, fem. of religieux "monk," noun use of adjective meaning "religious" (see religious). As a type of pastry, attested from 1929.
