‖ caloyer
(kaloje)
Also 7 coloiero, caloiro, caloieri, caloier, caloire, 9 kaloyeri.
[a. F. caloyer, ad. It. caloiero (pl. -ieri), ad. late Gr. καλόγηρος, f. καλός beautiful + γηρο-, -γηρος in comb. old, aged, i.e. ‘good in old age, venerable’. The It. caloiero, whence Fr. and Eng. immediately come, has i for palatal γ (= y cons.). The accentuation is shown in Byron quots.]
A Greek monk, esp. of the order of St. Basil.
| 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 82 This mountaine is only inhabited by Grecian Monks whom they call Coloieros, vnintermixed with the Laity. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 47 Dedicated in honor of St. Basil, to the Greeke Caloiers. 1676 F. Vernon in Phil. Trans. XI. 582 Now there is a Convent of Caloieri's there. 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece ii. 194 His usual Habit differeth not from the ordinary Caloyers, or Monks of the Order of St. Basil. Ibid. vi. 450 They consist of above a hundred Caloiroes. Ibid. 479 Here is also a Convent of Caloires, or Greekish Monks. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. ii. xlix, The convent's white walls glisten fair on high. Here dwells the caloyer, nor rude is he, Nor niggard of his cheer. 1813 ― Giaour 786 How name ye yon lone Caloyer? 1884 W. Carr Montenegro 29 The Vladika, the black caloyer of the Czernagora. |