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La Trappe
1[ la trap ]
noun
- an abbey in Normandy, France, at which the Trappist order was founded.
Trappe, La
2[ French la trap ]
noun
La Trappe
/ la trap /
noun
- 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
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What sort of a verdict would the shrewdest gipsy pass upon the monk of La Trappe?
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Let us inaugurate a secular La Trappe, let us plot a conspiracy of silence, let us send the world to Coventry.
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Everything but La Trappe was unutterably antagonistic to her.
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De Rancé, who had been many years a wealthy prodigal and sensualist, entered La Trappe, which had an evil repute for loose living.
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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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