Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CAN'ON-ESS
CAN'ON-BITCANON'IC, or CA-NON'IC-AL
CAN'ON-ESS, n.
A woman who enjoys a prebend, affixed, by the foundation, to maids, without obliging them to make any vows or renounce the world. – Encyc.
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