Friar in party skirt about to acquire name (9)
I believe the answer is:
dominican
'friar in party skirt' is the definition.
'dominican' can be an answer for 'friar' (Dominican is an example). I am unsure of the 'in party skirt' bit.
'about to acquire name' is the wordplay.
'about' becomes 'ca' (circa).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'acquire' becomes 'domini' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'name' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation e.g. on forms).
'ca' after 'domini' is 'dominica'.
'dominica'+'n'='DOMINICAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dominican that I've seen before include "Black Friar" , "Brother" , "Member of an order of friars" , "One working in order" , "West Indian" .)