[menuresse] (s.xiii4/4)
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[menuresse] (s.xiii4/4)

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  FEW:  minor 6/ii,125a Gdf:  menor (meneuresse) 5,242b GdfC: ∅ TL: menor (meneuresse) 5,1436 DEAF:  menor (menoresse)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  Minoress n.1  MED:  Menouresse n.  DMLBS:  Minorissa 1798c
menouresse,  minoresse  

s.f.

1monasticfemaleeccl. Minoress, Franciscan nun, Poor Clare: 
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  Seinte Clare, ki fust la primere soer del ordre des menouresses  288
( 1334 )  les povres minoresses de l'ordre de seynt Clare  ii 86.55
( 1397 )  jeo devise au couvent dé minoresses pres la Tour de Loundres cent livres d'argent  i 229.2
menu  menuaille  menuement  menuer#1  menuer#2  menuet#1  menuet#2  menur 
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