Vallombrosanadj.n.
/valəmˈbrəʊsən/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to Vallombrosa; spec. designating a Benedictine congregation established there in the eleventh century by Giovanni Gualberto.
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Vallombrosan1851
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxix. 77 The Vallombrosan brooks were strewn as thick.
1901 M. Carmichael In Tuscany 141 They were succeeded in 1793 by monks of the Vallombrosan Congregation of Benedictines.
B. n.
A monk of this congregation.
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Vallombrosan1884
1884 A. J. C. Hare Cities Central Italy I. xi. 297 The habit of the Vallombrosans was light grey, but the late monks wore a black cloak and a large hat when abroad.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 324 The monks of Benedict of Spoleto, Carthusians and Camaldolesi,..Oratorians and Vallombrosans.
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