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Austin Friars   /ˈɔstən frˈaɪərz/   Listen
Austin Friars

noun
1.
An Augustinian monastic order.





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... first meet Mark Tapley he is singing merrily, and there are dozens of others who sing either for their own delight or to please others. Even old Fips, of Austin Friars, the dry-as-dust lawyer, sang songs to the delight of the company gathered round the festive board in Martin Chuzzlewit's rooms in the Temple. Truly Dickens must have loved music greatly himself to have distributed such a love of ...
— Charles Dickens and Music • James T. Lightwood
... Edward VI. gave the church of the Augustinians (Austin Friars) to the Dutch Protestants in London, and the neighboring church of St. Anthony's Hospital in Threadneedle Street to the Walloons. Both were destroyed in the Great Fire, but had now been rebuilt. The Dutch church had two ministers. The habit of interchange between the two churches, ...
— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts


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