mendicant
/men-di-kuhnt/US // ˈmɛn dɪ kənt //UK // (ˈmɛndɪkənt) //
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- : pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who lives by begging; beggar.
- : a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.
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Examples
He has been on intimate terms with czar and serf, he has met millionaire and mendicant, he has hobnobbed with prince and pauper.
In a way of speaking, this mendicant of Coney Island was perhaps of this class.
They probably despised her already; how much more they would despise her in the character of a mendicant!
I must go there, if I clothe myself in the rags of a mendicant lama and beg my way from one black tent to another.
In a few days the town of Brussels swarmed with ash-gray garments such as were usually worn by mendicant friars and penitents.
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