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Brideshead Revisited
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Real G-g-green Chartreuse, made before the expulsion of the monks.†
p. 57.1

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
On Sundays a monk was fetched from a neighboring monastery to say mass and breakfast with us.†
p. 93.6
There was a frightful to-do— monks and monsignori running round the house like mice, and Brideshead just sitting glum and talking about the will of God.†
p. 98.1

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Well, what does she expect as a son-in-law—a sort of half-baked monk like Brideshead?†
p. 203.1
"Poor simple monk," I thought, "poor booby."†
p. 246.7
"Poor simple monk," I thought, "poor booby"; but he added, "You know why?†
p. 247.9
He's with the monks there.†
p. 347.5

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
They'd given him a room to himself; it was barely more than a monk's cell with a bed and a crucifix and white walls.†
p. 352.1 *
It's the spring of love ..." and then in condescension to my paganism, she added: "He's in a very beautiful place, you know, by the sea—white cloisters, a bell tower, rows of green vegetables, and a monk watering them when the sun is low."†
p. 355.9

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)