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medicine blackrobe
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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originally in Indian parlance, a priest, especially a missionary of the Roman Catholic or Anglican denominations.
See: blackrobe
Quotations
1935
"Albert Lacombe, if perhaps you cannot make these poor Indians believe the word of the white-man's God, you can at least be a medicine blackrobe to assist hunger and disease."