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HELOISE
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• HELOISE (noun)
The noun HELOISE has 1 sense:
1. student and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164)
Familiarity information: HELOISE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Student and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
abbess; mother superior; prioress (the superior of a group of nuns)
Context examples
They had been talking of Bonnivard, as they glided past Chillon, and of Rousseau, as they looked up at Clarens, where he wrote his Heloise.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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