La Trappe

¹ American  

[la trap] / la ˈtrap /

noun

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

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Trappe, La ² American  

[la trap] / la ˈtrap /

noun

1. La Trappe.

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La Trappe British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

The plant was then discharging excess amounts of pollutants into a tributary of La Trappe Creek, which empties into the Choptank River and eventually the bay.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022

In a moment, however, he repassed me swiftly, going in the same direction as were we, toward La Trappe.

From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The colony at La Trappe was, as far as I could judge, 8 a product of conditions which had, a hundred years before, culminated in the French Revolution.

From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The order got its name from the Cistercian abbey La Trappe in Normandy, of which Rancé was commendatory abbot.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Trap′pistine, a nun of this order of La Trappe.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various