Carmelite

[kɑ:mlait]

Definition

(noun.) a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers.

(adj.) of or relating to the Carmelite friars; 'Carmelite monasteries' .

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Definition

(a.) Alt. of Carmelin

(n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

(n.) A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.

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Definition

n. a monk of the order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Syria founded there about 1156 made a mendicant order in 1247—the habit brown with white cloak and scapular hence the Carmelites were popularly known as the White Friars: a monk or nun of discalced or reformed branch established by St Teresa—the barefooted Carmelites: a variety of pear; a fine woollen stuff like beige.

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