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Proper noun:

  • A monk of the order of ''Cistercians of the Strict Observance'' (a branch of the Cistercians Roman Catholic religious brotherhood that use a particularly strict interpretation of the Rule of St Benedict followed by a Cistercians). The order takes its name because the founder was from La Trappe, France.

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