prioress
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"It was our first time in a room together. We sat at a table as he ate, and the prioress didn't come back so I had to let him out."
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2023
“This could be the prioress, or maybe someone in the Dominican order who is over her, though it is possible archdiocesan officials have weighed in on the matter informally.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
When “Matrix” opens, Marie, all of 17 years old, is appointed prioress of a dilapidated abbey, founded centuries earlier, where a few nuns remain scavenging for food.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021
He revealed one: Ms. Mattila will sing Madame de Croissy, the prioress of an order of nuns during the French Revolution, in Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2016
“Now she has lived here some thirty years, and she has been prioress for ten years,” Isabel continues.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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