Minoress
/ˈmʌɪnərɪs/ /mʌɪnəˈrɛs/(also minoress) Now chiefly historical
noun
A Franciscan nun of the second order; a Poor Clare. Also Sister Minoress (chiefly in plural, in the names of Franciscan institutions).
Origin
Late Middle English. From Anglo-Norman menouresse (in frere-menouresse, with frere as first element) and Middle French meneuresse from menour + -esse.
- mutton chops
- mutton-chop whiskered
- mutton chop whiskers
- mutton cloth
- mutton dressed as lamb
- mutton dummy
- mutton fat
- mutton-fish
- mutton-fisted
- mutton flap
- mutton ham
- muttonhead
- muttonheaded
- Mutton jeff
- mutton pie
- mutton quad
- mutton sheep
- mutton snapper
- muttonwood
- muttony
- trapezoid bone
- trap-like
- trapline
- trapper
- trappings