fra
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Pronunciations
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/fɹɑː/
Noun
A title of a friar or monk: brother.
- Examples
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You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.
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The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]
"She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.