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1 definition found From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: BENEDICTINES, n. An order of monks otherwise known as black friars. She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be A monk of St Benedict croaking a text. "Here's one of an order of cooks," said she -- "Black friars in this world, fried black in the next." "The Devil on Earth" (London, 1712)
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