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fratress

noun

Etymology

From frater + -ess. Piecewise doublet of friaress.

  1. learned borrowing from frāter — “brother”
  2. suffixed as fratress — “frater + ess”

Definitions

  1. A woman in charge of the furniture in a convent.

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