religieuse
noun
a woman belonging to a religious order, congregation, etc.
religieuses
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pluralof religieuse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The latter is not open to visitors, the Pope having issued an order that the privacy of the religieuses should be respected.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
The description of the physique was a rule of the Portraits, not even the religieuses believing that it should be dispensed with.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
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
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
During my stay at Troyes, I lodged with the religieuses of the Congregation, who entertained me with much kindness and charity.
From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous
