Ron Hornsby wrote:
>
> I am grateful to Beth Williamson et al for the information on the actual
> name
> of the famous jazz player. However, my original enquiry concerned a
> literary
> source for the term "felonious monk". Since no one has offered one,
> I suppose that I must conclude that this also is a myth. (Which is not to
> say that
> the adjectival half never applied to any real monk!)
I don't know whether there were any "felonious monks" around when
Thelonious' mother came up with his name but, if she had found herself
in a Greek Orthodox church, she might as well have heard a priest call
at a monk: "felonio, monk!" i.e. "get my cope, monk".
Regards,
Efthimios
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