‖ recollet
(rekɔle)
Also 8 recolet.
[F. récollet = Sp., Pg. recoleto, It. recolletto, ad. L. recollect-us: see recollect v.2 4 and cf. recollection2 1.]
= Recollect n.
| 1760 Ann. Reg. i. 227 If..the jesuits and the recolets [in Canada] chuse to go to France, passage shall be granted them in his Britannic majesty's ships. 1766 Smollett Trav. 115 Here I found a young Irish recollet, on his way from Rome to his own country. 1801 C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. II. 283 He..knocked softly at a door..which was opened by an old recollet. 1889 J. G. Alger Englishm. Fr. Rev. 350 One of the Irish recollets at Boulay. |
b. attrib. and appos. Cf. Recollect n. b.
| 1695 Motteux St. Olon's Morocco 13 Towards the maintaining of a little Hospital, and two Spanish Recollet Monks. 1748 Earthquake Peru i. 75 That they call del Prado..was for the Recolet Augustines. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 765/1 A cathedral was erected..at Quebec, on the site of the old Recollet church. |