blackrobe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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originally in Indian parlance, a priest, especially a missionary of the Roman Catholic or Anglican denominations.

Quotations

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."