White friar: Definition and part of speech

White friar

  1. A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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