Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Dominicans

Preaching friars founded by Dominic de Guzman, at Toulouse, in 1215. Formerly called in England Black Friars, from their black dress, and in France Jacobins, because their mother-establishment in Paris was in the Rue St. Jacques.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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