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 Definitions of black friar  [ˈblækˌfʊt]  

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Definition of 'black friar' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Black Friar
a Dominican friar.

Etymology:  (1400–50; from the order's black cloak)

Definition of 'black friar' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher
a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order


Definition of 'black friar' Webster Dictionary 

1.  black friar
a friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine



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