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What is a friar?

What is a friar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
  2. (printing, dated) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
  3. An American fish, the silverside.
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He was a man who was in training to wear the brown robe of a Franciscan friar.
It certainly produced its share of deviants, among them the Augustinian friar who would destroy its unity, Martin Luther.
A Franciscan friar, much of Bacon's life is obscure, but he was born in Somerset and probably studied at Oxford before teaching in Paris.
At the height of the indulgence sale, Martin Luther, an Augustinian friar from Germany, traveled to Rome and was shocked by what he saw.
Fr Tony Lester is a Carmelite friar and Prior to a community of Carmelite brothers who live in More House on Heslington Lane.
The friar called them Amazons, after the fabled female warriors of Greek mythology, and the Amazon River was named for them.

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