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Minoress1 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmaɪnərɪs|
Forms: 4 menouresse, 5 meneresse, 7 minoress.
[ME. menouresse, a. OF. menouresse, f. menour minor n. 1: see -ess. (In med.L. minōrissa.)]
A nun of the second order of St. Francis, known as Poor Clares, whose house outside Aldgate gave its name to the Minories, a street still existing in the City of London.
Susters Meneresses (quot. 1451) is after OF. sereurs meneuresses.
1395E. E. Wills (1882) 7 The Religiouse Wommen the Menouresses dwellyngge withoute algate of london. 1451Rolls of Parlt. V. 224/1 The Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 755 These Nunnes were of the order of S. Clare, and called Minoresses. 1897Cath. Dict. (ed. 5) 726/2 The first monastery of Franciscan nuns or Minoresses formed in England (1293) was outside Aldgate. |