Car|mel|ite «KAHR muh lyt», noun.
1. a mendicant friar of a Roman Catholic religious order founded probably in the 1100s on Mount Carmel in Syria; white friar.
2. a nun of a similar order founded in 1562.
3. a fine woolen material, usually gray or light brown.
╂[< Medieval Latin Carmelites (properly) inhabitant of Mount Carmel (where the first colony was founded)]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.