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The Canterbury Tales Author Crossword Clue

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• English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

36%10 Character from Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'
noun

• a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order

36%9 Mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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• feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland

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