BENEDICTINES

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From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  BENEDICTINES, n.  An order of monks otherwise known as black friars.
  
      She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be
          A monk of St. Benedict croaking a text.
      "Here's one of an order of cooks," said she --
          "Black friars in this world, fried black in the next."


                                     "The Devil on Earth" (London, 1712)