Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Clare

(St.) A religious order of women, the second that St. Francis instituted. It was founded in 1213, and took its name from its first abbess.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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