Little Sister of the Poor

Roman Catholicism

: a member of a religious community founded in Brittany, France, about 1840 and devoted especially to the care of old people

Word History

Etymology

translation of French Petite Sœur des Pauvres

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Rhymes for Little Sister of the Poor

• amour
• auteur
• grandeur
• hauteur
• velour
• verdure
• voyeur
• doer
• poore
• raconteur