Grey Friar
noun
A Franciscan friar.It would perhaps be difficult to overrate the influence of the Grey Friars, particularly in the fourteenth century....
- They wore a gray tunic with a white cord at the waist; hence, their English name Grey Friars.
- The Grey Friars, of the order of St Frances of Assisi, first came to the town in 1233.
Origin
Middle English: so named because of the colour of the order's habit.
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