white friar

2 definitions found

white friar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  White friar \White" fri`ar\ (Eccl.)
     A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the
     white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
     [1913 Webster]

white friar - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  White Friar
      n 1: a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the
           Carmelite order; mendicant preachers [syn: Carmelite,
           White Friar]