WHITE FRIAR

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• WHITE FRIAR (noun)
  The noun WHITE FRIAR has 1 sense:

1. a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers

  Familiarity information: WHITE FRIAR used as a noun is very rare.

• WHITE FRIAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Carmelite; White Friar

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)