religieuse
nounEtymology Borrowed from French religieuse.
1
Dated A nun.
- "You must not, my dear sister, give way to curiosity. Do you not recollect it is against the rules for a religieuse to do so?"1835, Rebecca Reed, Six Months in a Convent:
2
A type of eclair made of two choux pastry cases, the smaller fixed atop of the other.