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black friar
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun black friar has 1 sense
- black friar(n = noun.person) blackfriar, dominican, friar preacher - a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order; Array is a member of dominican order
is a kind of friar, mendicant
has particulars: girolamo savonarola, savonarola
CIDE DICTIONARY
black friar,
A friar of the Dominican order, so named becaise wearing wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar ; in France, Jacobin . Also, sometimes, a Benedictine. [1913 Webster]
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