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Gray Friar

noun

  1. 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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Example Sentences

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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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