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cloisteress

cloisteress is the alternative form of cloistress.

Meaning of cloistress

Noun

cloistress (plural cloistresses)

  1. (literary, obsolete) A nun.
    • Like a cloistress she will veiled walk.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of cloisteress

pluralcloisteresses

Origin of cloisteress

From cloister + -ess.

Questions about cloisteress

What is cloisteress the alternative form of?
Cloisteress is the alternative form of cloistress.

Words near cloisteress in the dictionary

  1. cloister vaults
  2. cloisteral
  3. cloistered
  4. cloisterer
  5. cloisterers
  6. cloisteress
  7. cloisteresses
  8. cloistering
  9. cloisterism
  10. cloisterless
  11. cloisterlike

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