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La Trappe

1

[ la trap ]

noun

  1. an abbey in Normandy, France, at which the Trappist order was founded.


Trappe, La

2

[ French la trap ]

noun

La Trappe

/ la trap /

noun

  1. a monastery in NW France, in the village of Soligny-la-Trappe northeast of Alençon: founded in about 1140, site of the Trappist reform of Cistercian order in 1664
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

What sort of a verdict would the shrewdest gipsy pass upon the monk of La Trappe?

Let us inaugurate a secular La Trappe, let us plot a conspiracy of silence, let us send the world to Coventry.

Everything but La Trappe was unutterably antagonistic to her.

De Rancé, who had been many years a wealthy prodigal and sensualist, entered La Trappe, which had an evil repute for loose living.

The convent of La Trappe had been founded in 1122, but about the year 1663 the monks had dwindled to seven.

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