资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lorettine \Lo`ret*tine"\, n. (R. C. Ch.)
   One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in
   Kentucky. The members of the order (called also {Sisters of
   Loretto}, or {Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross})
   devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of
   destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the
   Western United States.