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Carmelite

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Carmelite \Car"mel*ite\, Carmelin \Car"mel*in\ a.
   Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

Carmelite \Car"mel*ite\, n.
   1. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.

Source : WordNet®

Carmelite
     adj : of or relating to the Carmelite friars; "Carmelite
           monasteries"
     n : a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the
         Carmelite order; mendicant preachers [syn: {White Friar}]
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