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WHITE FRIAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
Synonyms:
Carmelite; White Friar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("White Friar" is a kind of...):
friar; mendicant (a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)
Holonyms ("White Friar" is a member of...):
Carmelite order; Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century)
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