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A Franciscan nun of the second order; a Poor Clare. Also Sister Minoress (chiefly in plural, in the names of Franciscan institutions).
A nun of the Franciscan order of St. Clare; in plural (sometimes Poor Clares) the sisterhood instituted by St. Clare at Assisi 1212; also called…