Definition of "caloyer" [ca•loy•er]

• A reclusive monk of the Greek Orthodox Church (noun)

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• "Crossing the bed of the Ilissus and keeping nearer to Mount Hymettus, the travellers arrived at Vary, a farm belonging to the monastery of Agios Asomatos, and under the charge of a caloyer."
• "The organ of the Latin monks, the cymbals of the Abyssinian priest, the voice of the Greek caloyer, the prayer of the solitary Armenian, the plaintive accents of the"
• "‘hussar’ is Hungarian; ‘caloyer’, Romaic; ‘mammoth’, of some Siberian language; {14} ‘tattoo’, Polynesian; ‘steppe’, Tartarian; ‘sago’,"