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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
friar
 
SYLLABICATION:fri·ar
PRONUNCIATION:  frr
NOUN:abbr. Fr. A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English frere, from Old French, from Latin frter, brother. See bhrter- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:friar·ly —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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