out sister

British

noun

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

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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

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

"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

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)

It is not too late for me to make amends and carry out sister Bertha's wishes.

From The Hazeley Family by Johnson, A. E. (Alfred Edwin)

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