dominan.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 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.
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dame?c1225
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matriarch1606
maternity1693
domina1751
1751 T. Gordon Another Cordial II. 15 [St. Agatha] was the Domina of a Nunnery.
1819 T. Hope Anastasius I. iv. 83 The very domina who had excited the oracular dignity of one of the party.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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