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Domina

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The head of a nunnery.

    "Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry."

  2. 2
    A dominatrix.

    ">Couple of articles about professional dommes, […] It's written "domina". Period. Even in English. If you can't stand Latin endings, I'll grudgingly concede the androgynous abbreviation "dom". But a pseudo-French bastard "domme" really has no right to live, not even on a terminal screen."

  3. 3
    An ancient Roman lady.

    "A precious article is the paint with which the Roman domina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved."

Etymology

From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.

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