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Going After Cacciato
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He was dressed as a monk.†
Chpt 18 *
Four other monks surrounded him like disciples, all dressed in the same tattered robes, all bald, all smiling Cacciato's vacuous smile.†
Chpt 18

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
She pointed toward a crowd of monks gathered at the center of the park.†
Chpt 18
Another group of monks filed in from the east, several bearing lighted candles protected by glass.†
Chpt 18
When the candles had been placed on a stone altar, and after a tramcar rattled by, the monks stopped milling and began to sway in rhythm, chanting softly in the purply light of evening.†
Chpt 18
More monks joined the crowd, hundreds of them now, and more coming, and the chanting grew fuller and deeper.†
Chpt 18
He twisted hard but two monks had him by the waist.†
Chpt 18
A monk with gleaming green eyes was screaming and bending his arm double.†
Chpt 18
The monks were gone.†
Chpt 18

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Definitions:

(1) (monk)
a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)