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