Poor Clare
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Poor Clare (plural Poor Clares)
- (Catholicism) A nun of the Poor Clares, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.
- 1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume XVI, page 711:
- The Poor Clares... have also divided into Clarissines and Urbanists.
- 1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:
Synonyms
[edit]- Clare, Clarissa, Clarisse, Clarissan, Clarissian, Clarist, Clarissine, Minoress, Poor Lady, Sister Minor, Sister Minoress