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‖ religieuse|rəliʒjøz|
Also 8 erron. religieux (pl.). † Also as pl.
[F. religieuse fem. of next.]
1. A woman bound by religious vows, or devoted to a religious life; a nun.
1694Ld. Perth Let. 17 Sept. (1845) 43 Lady Lucy is a most excellent religieuse. 1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey II. l. 142 This virtuous, and..amiable society of religieux [ed. 3, 1789, religieuses]. 1796Mod. Gulliver 3 That there might be a pair of chaste examples ever before the religieuse, to fix their ideas the right way. 1815Chron. in Ann. Reg. 101 During the whole night the religieuses of the hospital prayed near the body. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xiii, A convent full of religieuses. 189319th Cent. Nov. 754 I had been given to understand that Jane Clermont was a very fervid religieuse. 1959Times 25 July 9/1 They [sc. béguinages] are communities of religieuses who live in separate houses.
2. (See quot. 1968.)
[1929E. J. Kollist French Pastry, Confectionery & Sweets iv. 57 Gâteau Religieuse... Set on clean baking-sheet eclairs from pâte à choux paste... In between each eclair decorate with whipped cream.] 1954C. Turgeon Tante Marie's French Cakes & Pastries 50 Little Nuns. Religieuses... This pastry is perhaps the most popular in all France. 1961A. Wesker Kitchen 11 Pastry called ‘Religieuse’. 1968Guardian 17 Feb. 9/8 A Religieuses [sic] is a gorgeously opulent edifice of éclairs bound with a mortar of chocolate and cream. |