Black Monk

American  

Or black monk

noun

1. a Benedictine monk (so called from the black habit worn by the order).

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Black Monk British  

noun

1. a Benedictine monk

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Etymology

Origin of Black Monk

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

Example Sentences

Turns out Colbert’s wife, Evelyn, is an actress who was starring in a one-night production of “Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy” at Wolf Trap on Sunday night.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

“In its heyday years, it was probably too expensive,” said Ryan Mathews, founder and CEO of Detroit-based Black Monk Consulting.

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2015

Gregoriena Rasputin Solaviev, daughter of the late, detested "Black Monk," Gregory Efimovich Rasputin, evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsarina of all the Russias.

From Time Magazine Archive

On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin, should inspect the Crank Duke Nicholas' lines, and the "Debauchee" wired that he was coming.

From Time Magazine Archive

All we English novelists ought to study "The Kiss" and "The Black Monk."

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold