What is "curates"

Usage examples of "curates".

It is better that curates should starve than undergo such ignominy as that.

Coming up redheaded curates from the county Leitrim, rinsing empties and old man in the cellar.

Barmby--and decide who will whether it is that Love was made to elude or that curates impelled by his fires are subtle as nether--had outwitted French watchfulness by stealing minutes enough on a day at Lakelands to declare himself.