weird sisters
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of weird sisters
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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For me, it was more about if those weird sisters were around, what would they be doing?
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2022
Kathryn Hunter is downright otherworldly as all three of the shape-shifting, soothsaying weird sisters.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Those familiar with “Macbeth” will instantly recognize the play’s three witches, embodied here by the great Kathryn Hunter as Shakespeare’s weird sisters rolled into a startling, unsettling, utterly glorious one-woman chorus.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
Or of Laura, played by Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg’s terrifying 1973 film Don’t Look Now, roaming Venice and attending séances with weird sisters, while Donald Sutherland attempts to get on with restoring a church.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2017
It presupposes that the "weird sisters" are on the stage as well as the witches.
From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred
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