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‖ domina|ˈdɒmɪnə|
[L.; = mistress, lady.]
†1. A lady of rank (see quot.) Obs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Domina, Dame, Lady, a Title formerly given to those honourable Women that held a Barony in their own Right of Inheritance.
2. The superior of a nunnery.
1751T. Gordon Another Cordial for Low Spirits II. 15 [St. Agatha] was the Domina of a Nunnery. 1819T. Hope Anastasius I. iv. 83 (Stanf.) The very domina who had excited the oracular dignity of one of the party. |