“monk's”

The following 4 entries include the term monk's.

monk's cloth

noun

: a coarse heavy fabric in basket weave made originally of worsted and used for monk's habits but now chiefly of cotton or linen and used for draperies

monk's pepper

noun

monk's seam

noun

: an extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches

Monk's Tale stanza

noun

: a stanza of eight five-stress lines with the rhyme scheme ababbcbc


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