blackfriar

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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

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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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