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/bɪɡwˈaɪn/
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NOUN
- (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life
How To Use Beguine In A Sentence
- Spike wrote: ‘We present a very colourful act in rhumba costume and our numbers comprise sambas, beguines, rhumbas etc.’
- Assuming we were loved at one time to beguine with of course. Axelrod: Obama "thought very long and hard about" about opening up the CIA interrogation memos.
- Let us “begin the beguine” at the beginning, with Tom Dyja, brilliant novelist who encouraged me to have fun rather than write something wrenching. One Flight Up
- Andrea Schacht: The novels about the beguine Almut Bossart. Archive 2008-04-01
- The Beguines were free to leave the beguinage and resume their old lives when their husbands returned from war.
- Like many Latin dances, the beguine emphasizes the ability to roll the hips while stepping, evoking sensuality.
- She refused to begin the beguine when they besought her to
- At night, party-goers dance the beguine, which was born in Martinique and reveals the islands soul.
- Because I'm a music guy, I decided to begin the beguine by working on my own personal play list for my personal Obama victory party. David Wild: An Embarrassingly Premature Obama Victory Party Mix
- Some vitae indicate the language of the materials that the women read, as when the foundress of Engelthal, a beguine in Nuremberg named Alheid, read in German to her young community over meals. 17 Other vitae indicate the language that the women (and those associated with them) sang or spoke. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
