Crutched Friar

/ (krʌtʃt, ˈkrʌtʃɪd) /

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noun

a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656

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Word Origin for Crutched Friar

C16: crutched, variant of crouched, literally: crossed, referring to the cross worn on their habits

Words nearby Crutched Friar

crusted, crustose, crusty, crut, crutch, Crutched Friar, crutchings, Crutzen, Cruveilhier, Cruveilhier-Baumgarten murmur, Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign

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How to use Crutched Friar in a sentence

His first theater role was as Friar Laurence in a UVA production of Romeo and Juliet.
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He wore the hooded brown habit and sandals of a Franciscan Capuchin friar.
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A man in a knit cap called out to the friar on duty, Father Paul Lostritto.
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But that kid from Podunk, now unloading freight at the big-box store, is a universe away from Oxford and a Capuchin friar buddy.
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It is also thought that the book was written by a Franciscan friar for the use of some one in a Benedictine house.
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It is only,” replies the friar, “to grace and adorn my speech; it is the colour of a Ciceronian rhetoric.
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A sharp eye was kept on all arrivals from abroad, and a friar, fresh from Portugal, was hanged in his cowl at Limerick.
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He did not fare so badly either, for being plump and rosy he was allowed to personate the jolly Friar Tuck.
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There were grey friars and white friars, Austin friars and crutched friars, all of whose names remain in the London of to-day.
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