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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)