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

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