"motherhouse" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Cistercian order is named after its motherhouse Cîteaux in Burgundy, where abbot St. Bernard initiated in 1113 the reform of their branch of the Benedictine order, which has its motherhouse at Monte Cassino."
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          "word": "maison mère"
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