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ˈsistership
[f. sister n. + -ship.]
Institutional or conventional sisterhood.
1840A. Strickland Queens Eng. I. 294 note, Those favoured ladies who..are fortunate enough to obtain sisterships. 1843Ld. J. Manners in Mrs. Brookfield & her Circle (1905) 133 They are not to be bound by vows, but during their Sistership to obey all the rules of the House. |