frère lai

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frère lai m (plural frères lais, feminine sœur laie)

  1. (Christianity) lay brother (monk who is not (or not yet) a priest)
  2. (Roman Catholicism, in a narrower sense also) a monk of lesser status, mainly employed for domestic services