Clarissen.
/klaˈriːs/ (a) The French name for a Poor Clare. (b) A nun belonging to that branch of the order of St. Clare which follows the original rule, as distinguished from the Urbanists who follow the mitigated rule approved by Pope Urban IV in 1264. (Also occasionally Clarist and Clarissine.)
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1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders 253 Clara..withdrew herself..to the Church of St. Damian, and there gave beginning to the poor Maids, called from her name Clarisses.
1840 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici ix. x. xiii. 404 His wife desired to enter a convent of Clarists.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 153/1 One of the only two nunneries of the Clarisses in Scotland existed at Aberdour.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 711/1 The Poor Clares..have also divided into Clarissines and Urbanists.
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n.1693- picture dealing
- picture desk
- picture disc
- picture document
- picture dress
- picture editor
- picture element
- picture frame
- picture framer
- picture framing
- picture frequency
- picture frock
- picture gallery
- picture gown
- picture hat
- picture house
- picture keeper
- picture knowledge
- picture language
- picture lens
- picture lesson
- picture library
- picture magazine
- picture maker
- picture merchant