Carmelite

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.

II. Carmelite ·adj ·Alt. of Carmelin.

III. Carmelite ·noun 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.

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