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Six example sentences with mendicant, each labelled with its topic.
A mendicant walked from village to village with an empty bowl, owning nothing beyond a robe and a staff.
History
The mendicant argued that owning property clouds judgment, and he had given away everything except the sandals he wore.
Philosophy
Giotto painted the mendicant barefoot in a brown habit, holding out both palms to the crowd on the steps.
Art
Chaucer's friar is a mendicant who begs more skillfully than any of his brothers and spends the alms on fine cloaks.
Literature
At dawn in Luang Prabang each mendicant walks the main street with a bowl, and residents kneel to offer rice.
Travel
Because a mendicant owned nothing, his order built plain churches with wide naves for preaching and almost no ornament.
Architecture
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