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Carmelite

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Car·mel·ite  (kärm-lt)
n.
1. A monk or mendicant friar belonging to the order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, founded in 1155. Also called White Friar.
2. A member of a community of nuns of this order, founded in 1452.
Carmel·ite adj.
Carmelite
Noun
a Christian friar or nun belonging to the order of Our Lady of Carmel
Adjective
of this order [after Mount Carmel, in Palestine, where the order was founded]
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Noun1.CarmeliteCarmelite - a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
White Friar
Carmelite order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century
friar, mendicant - a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
Adj.1.Carmelite - of or relating to the Carmelite friars; "Carmelite monasteries"
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The reader must now cross the Seine with us and follow us to the door of the Carmelite Convent in the Rue Saint Jacques.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
In plain words,' he said, 'the priest of the Catholic chapel close by has converted her; and she is now a novice in a convent of Carmelite nuns in the West of England.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
That is not very amusing, but we expect a Carmelite from Paris who will do the duty of our almonry, and who, we are assured, speaks very well, which will keep us awake, whereas our present almoner always sends us to sleep.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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