Blackfriar

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(Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named becaise wearing wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; - called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

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Blackfriar - a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order Black Friar, Dominican, friar preacher Dominican order - a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century friar, mendicant - a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms