cloister

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1. cloister - Noun

2. cloister - Verb

Meaning

An inclosed place.

A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;

the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.

A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

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Canterbury Cathedral: The first ever pocket watch was found in the walls of its cloister many hundreds of years ago. I decided to come, in the rain, to play with the locals and, if time permitted, attend the evening service. Derren Brown

Ophelia was a bride of god a novice Carmelite in sister cells the cloister bells tolled on her wedding night. Natalie Merchant

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. Bayard Taylor

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life. Abbe Pierre

After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again. Kim Edwards

She cloistered herself in the office Source: Internet

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