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Mother Superior

The Mother Superior is the nun in charge of a Christian convent.

See also: Abbess, monasticism.

It is also the name of at least two obscure and possibly apocryphal cocktails: either a martini with a prune instead of an olive, or a glass of ginger ale with a prune in it.

See also: the list of cocktails.

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