Sisterhood

(noun.) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns).

(noun.) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest.

(noun.) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings.

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• In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She never missed before, says a knitting-woman of the sisterhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• One of her sisterhood knitted beside her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Other letters were written for me by my valued fellow-workers, the sisterhood at the Mothers'-Small-Clothes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It shall never dishonour me; it shall never dishonour my sisterhood in me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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