beguine

I should probably have closed my days in that place of all afflicting sights and sounds, but for my good old Béguine.

Along the walls and between the windows are a dozen or more cupboards, of which one belongs to each Béguine.

These Béguine sisters took no vows; they were free to leave the community when they chose to do so.

For after his death, possibly before, communities of men were formed on the plan of the Béguine communities.

Pretty as the name was, the Béguine had not an atom of the poetic about her.