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Carmelite
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.
2. A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.