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Word: bishopess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...even Love Among the Ruins, but the contents never varied. There was always just enough plot to hold together a succession of chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always absent) is a pill. Gradually, as the Barsetshire books piled up, nearly everyone of note in the county appeared, married and begat (hardly anyone died), and Storyteller Thirkell confessed that for the life of her she could not keep track of all the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perfect Thirkell | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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