Meaning

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

Origin

From frater + -ess. Piecewise doublet of friaress.

From frater + -ess. Piecewise doublet of friaress.

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Forms

plural: fratresses
Singularfratress
Pluralfratresses

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfrater

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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