La Trappe

[ la-trap ]

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

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La Trappe

/ (French 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

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