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Gray Friar
noun
- a Franciscan friar: so called from the traditional color of the habit worn by the order.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Gray Friar1
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325
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Twelve men, disguised in masks and gray friar cloaks, entered silently, with drawn swords, one of them holding a flaming torch.
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Very well, then there will be a gray friar hung!
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It is the Quasimodo and the Lear and the Gray Friar of mountains, all in one.
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Now in just such a place as this, by the cross-roads, Little John, garbed as a gray friar, met the three lasses who were carrying their eggs to the market at Tuxford.
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This pleasant beast ran about the circle a great while, and lastly appeared in the manner of a Gray Friar, asking Faustus what was his request.
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