gilbertine

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GIL'BERTINE, noun One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England. GIL'BERTINE, adjective Belonging to the monastic order, mentioned above.
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