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

1. La Trappe.

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

Example Sentences

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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