Carmeliten.adj.
/ˈkɑːməlʌɪt/ 1.
a. A member of an order of mendicant friars (called also, from the white cloak which forms part of their dress, White Friars), who derive their origin from a colony founded on Mount Carmel by Berthold, a Calabrian, in the 12th century. Also attributive or as adj.The order was introduced into Europe in the 13th cent., and in the 16th divided into several branches, one of which, the barefooted Carmelites, were distinguished by the severity of their rule.
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1505 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1869) IV. 239 To the Freerres Carmelites a certayne of bookes.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik l. 25 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 262 The Iacobene freiris of þe quhyt hew The Carmeleitis and þe monkis eik.
1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 58 Most grave and reverend Carmelites.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 407 The above-mentioned Carmelite church.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 281 The church of the White-friars, or Carmelites, stood on the south side of Fleet-street.
1823 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 501 Pallavicino, a carmelite friar.
b. Belonging to, or a member of, an order of nuns organized on the model of the Carmelite or White Friars.
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1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. D8v I was at the Nunnery of the Carmelite Nunnes.
a1649 R. Crashaw Carmen Deo Nostro (1652) 93 The Admirable Sanite Teresa Foundresse of the Reformation of the Discalced Carmelites, both men and Women.
1739 T. Gray Let. 1 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 100 We saw the chapels of the Minims and the Carmelite Nuns.
1888 H. J. Coleridge St. Teresa III. 9 St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi was a ‘Mitigated’ Carmelite.
1909 Dublin Rev. Jan. 61 We have..Carmelites at Lanherne, Darlington, and Chichester.
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1704 Dict. Rusticum Carmelite, is a large flat Pear, one side gray, and on the other a little tinged with red... It is ripe in March.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Carmelite, a sort of pear.
3. A fine woollen stuff, generally of a grey or other obscure colour: perhaps = French carmeline ‘wool of the vicugna’ (a species of llama), Littré.
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1828 J. T. Smith Nollekens I. 19 Among her dresses was one of a fashionable Carmelite, a rich purple brown.
1859 Lady's Tour Monte Rosa 7 Every lady..should have a dress of some light woollen material such as carmelite or alpaca.
1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims i. vii. 77 [She] put on her Puritan hat, and sober gray carmelite gown.
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