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Black friar
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What's The Definition Of Black friar?
[n] a Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
Synonyms | Synonyms for Black friar: Blackfriar | Dominican Related Terms | Find terms related to Black friar: See Also | friar | Girolamo Savonarola | mendicant | Roman Catholic | Savonarola Black friar In Webster's Dictionary \Black" fri`ar\ (Eccl.)
A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also {predicant}
and {preaching friar}; in France, {Jacobin}. Also, sometimes,
a Benedictine.
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