| 单词 |
white monk |
| 释义 |
white monk [white a. 6 a: cf. white friar.] A Cistercian monk: so called from the colour of the habit of undyed wool.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 31 He made Baldewyn þe whiȝte monk archbisshop of Caunterbury. c1400Rom. Rose 6695 These chanouns regulers Or white monkes or these blake. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 7 Seynt Elyn..lith in a ffayer place of religion of whith monks. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §136. (1810) 152 Duke Alfred erected a fair abbey for white monks of the order of Cistercians. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 566. |

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