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单词 white monk
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white monkn.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈmʌŋk/, U.S. /ˈˌ(h)waɪt ˈməŋk/
Forms: see white adj. and n. and monk n.1 Also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: white adj., monk n.1
Etymology: < white adj. + monk n.1, after post-classical Latin monachus albus (from 12th cent. in British sources), with reference to the colour of the habit. Compare White Friar n.Compare Old Frisian hwīta munek Premonstratensian monk, and Middle Dutch witte monik (Dutch witte monnik), German weißer Mönch (15th cent.), both in the wider sense ‘member of any of various monastic orders distinguished by the wearing of a white or undyed habit’, but chiefly with reference to Cistercians and Premonstratensians. Compare also Anglo-Norman blanc muine (also muine blanc), Middle French, French moine blanc Cistercian monk (1282 or earlier in Anglo-Norman, end of the 14th cent. in continental French).
A member of the Cistercian monastic order, distinguished by the wearing of a white or undyed habit.
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white monk?c1335
pied monk1530
white cloak1610
Bernardine1663
Cistercian1663
?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne l. 52 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 146 Þer is a wel fair abbei Of white monkes and of grei.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 31 He made Baldewyn þe whiȝte monk [L. Cisterciensis ordinis monachum] archbisshop of Caunterbury.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6695 These chanouns regulers Or white monkes or these blake.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 7 Seynt Elyn..lith in a ffayer place of religion of whith monks.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 178 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 The se mawis war monkis ye blak & ye quhyte.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §136. 152 Duke Alfred erected a fair abbey for white monks of the order of Cistercians.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 744 The White Monks..were forced to pay..40000l. of Silver.
1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772: Pt. 2 351 Near Aysgarth..was founded the convent of white monks, brought from Savigny, in France.
1845 Lives Eng. Saints, St. Robert 52 A noble baron, called Ralph de Merlay, offered to endow a Cistercian house if they would send a colony of White monks into his lands.
1891 National Rev. July 669 Far from the moiling crowd and the garboyle of the world, away in some secluded valley..the White Monk made his home.
1954 Eng. Hist. Rev. 69 329 The white monks are referred to as ‘the trouble-shooters of the Church’.
1990 C. Page Owl & Nightingale vii. 157 The White Monk's exertions in choir were integrated into a day that took him (at least in theory) into the fields with hoe and scythe.
2006 M. Morris in D. Farley & J. Sholl Travelers' Tales Prague 76 I noticed the white monk approaching. He was dressed entirely in long white robes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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