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nounan association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest
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nounthe kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings
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nouna religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns)type of:
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- beguine (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life