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blackrobe 
n. originally in Indian parlance, a priest, especially a missionary of the Roman Catholic or Anglican denominations.
See also: blackcoat medicine blackrobe
- 1840 They exhorted her to take it into the woods, where the blackrobes, as they called the Christian priests, would not be able to find her.
- 1875 The black-robe, the voyageur, and the red man passed up and down the river in bark canoes.
- 1959 With his residence established at Fort Good Hope, Father Grollier . . . was the first Blackrobe to meet the Loucheaux and the Eskimos. . . .
- 1963 "I have heard my friend the blackrobe. What he says is good for the Moonias. I am not a white man."
- 1840 They exhorted her to take it into the woods, where the blackrobes, as they called the Christian priests, would not be able to find her.