Man of the cloth

• Sermonizer in France
• Lane who sang with Cugat
• Head of le monastère
• Weather Service pioneer
• French secular cleric
• Cleric title
• Head of a French monastery
• Title of respect for a Parisian cleric
• Abbot, in Abitibi

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, title given in France to "every one who wears an ecclesiastical dress," especially one having no assigned ecclesiastical duty, from French abbé , from Late Latin abbatem , accusative of abbas (see abbot ).