religieuse
Americannoun
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religieuses
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of religieuse
C18: feminine of religieux
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Whatever you do, don't throw away the crusty bronzed layer that forms at the bottom—this is an Alpine delicacy called la religieuse, and it should go to your party's MVP.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2023
As a veiled religieuse she is found first in an old-men's home, later in a maternity home, lastly as the Mother Superior in an orphanage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I check Violet’s account and see she’s taken France by storm: religieuse pastries, macarons, rainy cobblestone streets, angled Eiffel Tower shots, and a selfie with a mystery guy kissing her cheek.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
There is a pretty letter from one of his aunts, a religieuse de Port Royal, begging him to keep away from "des fréquentations abominables," and to return to a Christian life.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington
"I would rather she would be a religieuse than a shadow."
From Melbourne House by Susan Warner
Love, motherhood, and loss—the loss that is saddest of all losses to women, be they wives or maids or religieuses.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Merely the marks produced by hysterical brooding," he replied, "like the stigmata of the religieuses, and the bruises which appear on the bodies of hypnotised subjects who have been told to expect them.
From Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood
He accepted the offer of Sister Bourgeois on the spot, and the religieuses thanked him for even that concession, awaiting, as they said, a happier occasion for the foundation they so eagerly desired.
From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous
Shortly after his becoming a member of the French Academy, he publishes his "Harmonies politiques et religieuses."
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Among all the saintly religieuses who, during the Middle Ages, practiced medicine or wrote treatises on it, the first, without contradiction, is Hildegard.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
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