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Friar Rush

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A house-spirit, sent from the infernal regions in the seventeenth century to keep the monks and friars in the same state of wickedness they were then in. The legends of this roysterer are of German origin. (Bruder Rausch, brother Tipple.)

 

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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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Friar
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Friar Dominic
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Friar John
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Friar Tuck
Friar’s Heel
Friar’s Lanthorn
Friars [brothers]
Friars
Friars Major (Fratrēs majorēs)
Friars Minor (Fratrēs minorēs)
Friar’s Tale
Fribble
Friday