out sister

British  

noun

1. a member of a community of nuns who performs tasks in the outside world on behalf of the community

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Example Sentences

The Walt Disney Company, which bought ClubPenguin.com in 2007 for $700 million, has pumped out sister sites; toy companies like Build-A-Bear Workshop, the retail chain, have flooded the Web with their own offerings.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2010

"I do not like to hear you speak so disrespectfully of out sister, whom I am sure you love as tenderly as I do myself."

From Precaution by Cooper, James Fenimore

"I'm afraid it'll be troublesome to you getting it out, sister," said Mrs. Tulliver; "but I should like to see what sort of a crown she's made you."

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

Besides, it's very dark out, sister, and the tavern where I saw him is a long distance from here.

From The Two Wives Or, Lost and Won by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

But I will spy him out, sister, and report like a—like a—forty-two pounder, or the dispatch of a general who has won a fight.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton