| 单词 | beguine |
| 例句 | The beguines were communities run by and for single women and they form part of a wonderful section on the choices and chances open to women left at home by their travelling menfolk. Making waves 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In the beguines lie some of the roots of modern feminism. A new perspective on the birth of Europe in ‘The Edge of the World’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z There is a particularly fine chapter on the beguines, a sisterhood that wasn’t an order of nuns but rather a community of women, who — without men — worked and lived together. A new perspective on the birth of Europe in ‘The Edge of the World’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z One vexing problem is the return to England from France of Kate’s thoroughly unpleasant and secretive mother, determined to found a house of beguines — women who live together in religious communities but are not nuns. Crime fiction roundup: Sherlock Holmes, Jack Reacher star in short stories 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z There are sometimes as many as seven hundred beguines assembled in the church. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Besides these, the deaconesses of the Rhine and the beguines of Flanders have acquired an imperishable record in history for their philanthropic efforts. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Mechthild, at first a beguine, and afterwards a nun, but a visionary from the days of her childhood, was born, most probably of noble parents, in the diocese of Magdeburg, in 1212. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens The word "beguine" meant a nun; and thus derivatively a nun's close cap. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) But to make a clean breast of her poor girlish worldliness, before she became a beguine, she confessed to her mother the receipt of the letter—the cruel letter that had killed her. Imaginary Portraits And now the palace of glass was shivered, and she was forsaken for a peasant beguine. The Path of the King But the poor beguine, Mechthild, was not in the same powerful position to stay, or even to modify, the resentment which her attacks occasioned. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens The beguine took no vows, could return to the world and marry if she so desired, and did not renounce her property. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens |
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