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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: frere 'brother', from Latin frater

friar

 noun
     
Related topics: Christianity
fri‧ar [countable]
RRC a member of a religious group of Catholic men, who travelled around in the past teaching about Christianity and who were very poor [↪ monk]
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