Monkish

Decadent pieces of monkish, in a light and crispy batter, dusted with a punchy salt and pepper seasoning, sweet and sour vinegar dipping sauce and a squeeze of lime.

Mortier, p. 320 and n. 3. From the age of six, it seems, Niccolò was destined for the monkish life.

Ricky's bedroom was designed to be cell-like to suggest his "monkish" personality, while at the same time blending with the high-tech equipment to reflect his voyeuristic side.

The city piles up lofty and almost miniature, and makes me think of Jerusalem: without trees, without cover, rising rather bare and proud, remote as if back in history, like a town in a monkish, illuminated missal.

The pairing of the monkish Louis and the high-spirited Eleanor was doomed to failure; she reportedly once declared that she had thought to marry a king, only to find she had married a monk.

This notorious affair caused a monkish scribe to transcribe Rosamund's name in Latin to "Rosa Immundi", or "Rose of Unchastity".