English Dictionary

abbess

/ˈæb.ɪs/

noun

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.

The abbess led the nuns in their daily prayers.

意味（1）

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.

The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.

意味（2）

(archaic, British slang) A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.

Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.