Lorettine

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lorettine \Lo`ret*tine"\, n. [From Loreto in Italy.] (R. C. Ch.)
     (a) One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in
         Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters
         of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross)
         devote themselves to the cause of education and the care
         of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined


         to the western United States.
     (b) A Loreto nun.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]