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Black friar   Listen
noun
Black friar, Blackfriar  n.  (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
Synonyms: Dominican.





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


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