BENEDICTINES
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Definition
An order of monks otherwise known as black friars.
Additional notes
She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be A monk of St. Benedict croaking a text. Here's one of an order of cooks, said she— Black friars in this world, fried black in the next. The Devil on Earth (London, 1712)
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