carmelitess

A woman form Mount Carmel in Judah.

Mara was a Carmelitess, a daughter of Eliada, of the tribe of Judah.

An embassy took place here when David was united in marriage to a Carmelitess, who at a future period was, with other of her sex, taken captive in a war with the Amalekites.”

A Carmelite nun.

When she sang, it was with a similar effect for him; when she played, she seemed only to celebrate the perishableness, the nothingness, of the music, and the pleasure it gave rise to: and her dress, which was always handsome and gracefully disposed, seemed ever to be on the verge, like the first disguises of the Columbine in a pantomime, of changing into the attire of a Carmelitess or Poor Clare.

The order of Carmelitesses, or Carmelite Nuns, was instituted 1452, and is very numerous in Italy.