Definition of "nonne" []

• A nun. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The Latin language distinguishes between questions expecting the answer yes, which are prefaced by "nonne", and those expecting the answer no, which begin with a "num"."
• "In the House of Commons on Wednesday Ed Miliband asked a textbook "nonne" question only to find, to his astonishment and almost everyone else's, that the answer he got was a no."
• "Or it can be piped out of a bag into hot oil, then sprinkled with sugar, like beignets in France, delicious little doughnuts, called, in a bit of choice French naming, pets de nonne, or nuns farts."