Black·fri·ar, Black fri·ar 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.
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  Black Friar
       n : a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the
           Dominican order [syn: Dominican, Blackfriar, friar
           preacher]