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Definition of Curtal friar

Curtal friar
Curtal friar Cur"tal fri`ar (fr?`?r). A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. --Sir W. Scott.

Meaning of Curtal friar from wikipedia

- published in 1560 which tells a story similar to "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar" (the oldest surviving copy of this ballad is from the 17th century)...
- "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar" (Roud 1621, Child 123) is an English-language folk song about Robin Hood. This ballad is one of those appearing in later...
- This includes a dramatic version of the story of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and a version of the first part of the story of Robin Hood and the Potter...
- the Miller's Son, the name by which he is known in Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (version 145B). It is also the name...
- and therefore, this tale is combined with that of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar. In Pierce Egan the Younger's story Robin Hood and Little John, Alan...
- the alias Friar Tuck. A fighting friar appears in the ballad "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar", though he is not named. Robin and the friar engage in...
- fight and outwitting. In Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (Child Ballad 123), Will Scarlet tells Robin of the friar, resulting in their encounter. In Robin...
- situations of dire need in other stories such as Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and Robin Hood and the Shepherd. It is unknown whether the story of Robin...
- Hood's Death," "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne," "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar," "Robin Hood and the Butcher," "The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield," "Little...
- an alias of Marian. Francis James Child notes that the early mentions of Friar Tuck (another May Games character) are in ****ociation with Marian. By the...