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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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... at the Cross that day was a Black Friar—a tall spare man, whom some might call gaunt and ungainly; a man of quick intelligence and radiant eyes, of earnest gesture and burning words. No idle monastic reveller this, but a man of one object, of one idea, full of zeal and determination. His ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt


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


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