Definitions for black friar
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Black′ Fri′ar(n.)
a Dominican friar.
Origin of Black Friar:
1400–50; from the order's black cloak
Princeton's WordNet
Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher(noun)
a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
Wiktionary
black friar(Noun)
A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.
Webster Dictionary
Black friar(u)
a friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine
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