His first theater role was as Friar Laurence in a UVA production of Romeo and Juliet.
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He wore the hooded brown habit and sandals of a Franciscan Capuchin friar.
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A man in a knit cap called out to the friar on duty, Father Paul Lostritto.
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But that kid from Podunk, now unloading freight at the big-box store, is a universe away from Oxford and a Capuchin friar buddy.
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My kingdom was full of a quarrel 'twixt peasant and noblesse, 'twixt monk and friar, and merchant.
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Friar John Tezel, commissary, has signed it with his own hand.
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Ty stood in his door as the Friar rode up, and he recognized him from the description Badger-face had turned in.
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Friar Jerome, however, was ordered not to lose sight of him.
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Here is a knave of a friar calleth me a mad priest, and yet I smite him not.
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British Dictionary definitions for friar
friar
/ (ˈfraɪə) /
noun
a member of any of various chiefly mendicant religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church, the main orders being Black Friars (Dominicans), Grey Friars (Franciscans), White Friars (Carmelites), and Austin Friars (Augustinians)See also Black Friar, Grey Friar, White Friar, Augustinian
Derived forms of friar
friarly, adjective
Word Origin for friar
C13 frere, from Old French: brother, from Latin frāterbrother