Gray Friar

American  

noun

1. a Franciscan friar: so called from the traditional color of the habit worn by the order.

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Etymology

Origin of Gray Friar

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325

Example Sentences

It is the Quasimodo and the Lear and the Gray Friar of mountains, all in one.

From Project Gutenberg

Now in just such a place as this, by the cross-roads, Little John, garbed as a gray friar, met the three lasses who were carrying their eggs to the market at Tuxford.

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This pleasant beast ran about the circle a great while, and lastly appeared in the manner of a Gray Friar, asking Faustus what was his request.

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When he roams, though he stains not his path through the air With the splendour of tropical wings, All the lustre denied to his russet plumes there Flashes forth through his lay when he sings; For the little gray friar is so wondrous wise, Though in such a plain garb he appears, That on finding he can't reach your soul through your eyes, He steals in through the gates of your ears.

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After dinner you are told that there is of course a ghost—a gray friar who is seen in the dusky hours at the end of passages.

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