Carmelitess

Noun

Carmelitess (plural Carmelitesses)

1. (historical) A woman form Mount Carmel in Judah.
   • Mara was a Carmelitess, a daughter of Eliada, of the tribe of Judah.1826, N. W. Oliver, Sephora: A Hebrew Tale
   • An embassy took place here when David was united in marriage to a Carmelitess, who at a future period was, with other of her sex, taken captive in a war with the Amalekites.”1847, William Rae Wilson, Travels in the Holy Land, page 60
2. A Carmelite nun.
   • When she sang, it was with a similar effect for him; when she played, she seemed only to celebrate the perishableness, the nothingness, of the music, and the pleasure it gave rise to: and her dress, which was always handsome and gracefully disposed, seemed ever to be on the verge, like the first...1856, The Beleaguered Hearth, page 21
   • The order of Carmelitesses, or Carmelite Nuns, was instituted 1452, and is very numerous in Italy.1888, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language