Etymology

Maryknoller

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Today it means: A member of the Catholic missionary society Maryknoll. Full definition →

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The story

From Mary + knoll + -er. The society was set up on a plot of land that they called Mary's Knoll, after the Virgin Mary.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.