The AI-powered English dictionary
A female given name from French examples
plural Clarisses
(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly such a nun who followed the original rules of Saint Clare of Assisi. quotations examples
Clara... withdrew herself... to the Church of St. Damian, and there gave beginning to the poor Maids, called from her name Clarisses...
1693, Gabriel d'Emillianne, translated by Antonio Gavin, A Short History of Monastical Orders, page 253