moncke

English edit

moncke (plural monckes)

Obsolete spelling of monk
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Into their cloysters now he broken had,
  Through which the monckes he chaced here and there,
  And them pursu'd into their dortours sad