'Black Friar' definitions:
Definition of 'Black Friar'
From: WordNet
noun
A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order [syn: Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher]
Definition of 'Black friar'
From: GCIDE
- Blackfriar \Black"fri`ar\, Black friar \Black" fri`ar\(bl[a^]k"fr[imac]`[~e]r). (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
- Syn: Dominican. [1913 Webster]