Recluse

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 · 1889 · p. 21

sb. a female anchorite, SkD; ‘ankyr, a nach or it a ’ Prompt.—AF. reclus ; recluse , a f. pp. from OF. reclure , to shut up; Late Lat. recludere .