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noun
A nun who serves as dean in a convent.
A female dean (head of a university faculty).
But now comes Deaness Kathleen Deignan.
The wife of a dean.
And as dean, with the help of his deaness, Eva Howe Stevens, he entertained every student in his home every year and made Cornell a Shangri-la.