canoness
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The nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physically, she had doubled her chin like a canoness.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Alys Hallard
There was Miss Jane Porter, looking like a shabby canoness.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
His sister was canoness in an aristocratic order, whose members were permitted to receive visits from their brothers.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
"A cup of coffee?" the old canoness asked the newcomer.
From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Ossip Schubin
