Trappist

['træpist]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

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解釋/意思:

n. a member of a monastic body a branch of the Cistercians noted for the extreme austerity of the rule—so named from the abbey of La Trappe in the French department of Orne.—n. Trap′pistine a nun of this order of La Trappe.

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