"Beguine" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /beɪˈɡiːn/ Forms: Beguines [plural]
Etymology: From Old French béguine. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|béguine}} Old French béguine Head templates: {{en-noun}} Beguine (plural Beguines)
  1. (historical) A member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order active in Northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries in the 13th–16th centuries. Tags: historical Related terms: beguinage Coordinate_terms: Beghard Translations (Translations): beguí [masculine] (Catalan), begijn (Dutch), béguin [masculine] (French), béguine [feminine] (French), Begine [feminine] (German), Beguine [feminine] (German), beghino [masculine] (Italian), beghina [feminine] (Italian), beginka [feminine] (Polish), beguino [masculine] (Spanish), beguina [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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