Nun

A nun (from the Latin nonna being a female version of nonnus meaning monk) was the female equivalent of a monk. Nuns lived in a community of nuns and followed a religion:relgious life under the authority of an abbess.

Although nuns were meant to be celibate, the skeletons of newborns have been found in the wells of convents. Nuns also well being chastised for keeping pets during the middle ages.