How to use La Trappe in a sentence
What sort of a verdict would the shrewdest gipsy pass upon the monk of La Trappe?
How to Observe | Harriet MartineauLet us inaugurate a secular La Trappe, let us plot a conspiracy of silence, let us send the world to Coventry.
Prose Fancies | Richard Le GallienneEverything 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.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake JamesThe convent of La Trappe had been founded in 1122, but about the year 1663 the monks had dwindled to seven.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake James
British Dictionary definitions for La Trappe
/ (French la trap) /
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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