[WHITE a. 6 a: cf. WHITE FRIAR.] A Cistercian monk: so called from the color of the habit of undyed wool.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 31. He made Baldewyn þe whiȝte monk archbisshop of Caunterbury.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 6695. These chanouns regulers Or white monkes or these blake.
1517. Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 7. Seynt Elyn … lith in a ffayer place of religion of whith monks.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 136 (1810), 152. Duke Alfred erected a fair abbey for white monks of the order of Cistercians.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 566.
