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Preaching friars founded by Dominic de Guzman, at Toulouse, in 1215. Formerly called in England Black Friars, from their black dress, and in France Jacʹobins, because their mother-establishment in Paris was in the Rue St. Jacques.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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