Brewer's: White Friars

The Carmelites. So called because they dressed in white.

Whitefriars, London.
So called from a monastery of White Friars which formerly stood in Water Lane. Whitefriars. A novel, by Emma Robinson.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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