foundress
Noun
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Noun
foundress (plural foundresses)
- A female founder.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 404:
- Francis's own unlovely tunic, and that of his female colleague Clare, foundress of parallel communities for women, are lovingly preserved and displayed by the nuns of St Clare in Assisi [...].
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 404:
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