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  1. Member of a Roman Catholic order of monks and
  2. nuns, renowned for the strictness of their
  3. rule, which includes the maintenance of
  4. silence, manual labour, and a vegetarian
  5. diet. It originated 1664 at La Trappe, in
  6. Normandy, as a reformed version of the
  7. Cistercian order under which it is now once
  8. more governed.
  9.