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blackfriar
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blackfriar has 1 sense
- blackfriar(n = noun.person) black friar, 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
blackfriar,
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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