moncke

English

Noun

moncke (plural monckes)

1. Obsolete spelling of monk
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Into their cloysters now he broken had,
     Through which the monckes he chaced here and there,
     And them pursu'd into their dortours sad

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