bonze
a Buddhist monk, especially of Japan or China.
Origin of bonze
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How to use bonze in a sentence
A priest, or bonze, handed us some little tapers for us to light and offer to his divinity.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferOver this pit is an armchair, to which the deceased bonze is fastened in full costume.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferBut one young bonze named "Lift-the-Kettle" (after a passage in the Sanscrit classics) had rigidly kept the rules.
Japanese Fairy World | William Elliot GriffisIn the eyes of the people Xavier was merely a new kind of bonze, and they listened to him with the greatest attention.
The Jesuits, 1534-1921 | Thomas J. CampbellHe was conducted by his bearers to the largest temple in the city, where a yellow-robed bonze was in waiting to receive him.
In Eastern Seas | J. J. Smith
British Dictionary definitions for bonze
/ (bɒnz) /
a Chinese or Japanese Buddhist priest or monk
Origin of bonze
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