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French
Pronunciation
Noun
frère lai m (plural frères lais, feminine sœur laie)
- (Christianity) lay brother (monk who is not (or not yet) a priest)
- (Roman Catholicism, in a narrower sense also) a monk of lesser status, mainly employed for domestic services