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Black Friar   /blæk frˈaɪər/   Listen
Black Friar

noun
1.
A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order.  Synonyms: Blackfriar, Dominican, friar preacher.





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"Black Friar" Quotes from Famous Books



... so astounded at seeing a black friar and a grey nun pass through his kitchen from the inside, that he gaped, and muttered, "Why, what mummery is this?" But he soon comprehended the matter, and whipped in between the fugitives and the door. "What ho! Reuben! Carl! Gavin! here is ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade


Words linked to "Black Friar" :   Girolamo Savonarola, Savonarola, Dominican order, friar, mendicant


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