Sentence examples for black friar from inspiring English sources
noun
A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.
We stayed in a wood-paneled suite at the Black Friar Inn (207-288-5091; www.bigckfriarinn.com), a big Victorian cottage a few blocks from the center of town.
Dominican, byname Black Friar, member of Order of Friars Preachers, also called Order of Preachers (O.P ., one of the four great mendicant orders of the Roman Catholic church, was founded by St. Dominic in 1215.
Sit down for a glass of absinthe or ask for a weak hock and seltzer at the Black Friar, the delightfully unspoilt art & crafts pub (H Fuller Clark, 1905) at 174 Queen Victoria Street near Blackfriars Station in the City of London.
According to still another attribution, the Summule was compiled by a Black Friar no earlier than in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century.
The group met just outside the Black Friar, an ornately decorated pub built in 1905 on the site of an old Dominican friary near the Blackfriars Bridge.
Reiss bought it but changed the name to "Black Friar of the Flame".
Nearby, the Black Friars Gin Distillery offers tours of the medieval building home to Plymouth Gin since 1793.
The best-preserved portions of the old town walls lie between Westgate Road and Gallowgate, close to the ruins of the medieval Black Friars' priory.
The name of the theatres derives from their location on the site of a 13th-century Dominican (the Black Friars) priory lying within the City of London between the River Thames and Ludgate Hill.
At one recent retreat, prospective recruits were invited to imagine themselves as black friars, as the Dominicans are nicknamed, gathering for evening prayer at the 19th-century St . Marys Church in Cork, where the order first arrived in 1229.
Inspired by a local who was buying still-strength gin to make his own, he rustled about the Black Friars archives until he unearthed a sloe gin recipe from 1883.
