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Grey Friars

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Franciscan friars, so called from their grey habit. Black friars are Dominicans, and White friars Carmelites.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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