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black friars

Dominican \Do*min"i*can\, prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

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black friars

n. 1 (black friar English) 2 The religious order of the Dominicans.

Usage examples of "black friars".

The Dominicans, officially me Order of Preachers, became known as the Black Friars, because of their black mantle over the white habit.

The Dominicans, officially the Order of Preachers, became known as the Black Friars, because of their black mantle over the white habit.

The vesper bells at Port Praya were now summoning the poor black friars to their devotion.

Behind him were three Black Friars standing close together in a frightened group, like three black sheep in a tempest.

At Black Friars, the ancestral Blackley home, I learned to dread the spirit world.

It is ten o'clock: the spire of the abbey of the Black Friars has just tolled eight, slowly.