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US
/ˈkɫɔɪstɝ/
]
[ UK /klˈɔɪstɐ/ ]
[ UK /klˈɔɪstɐ/ ]
VERB
- surround with a cloister, as of a garden
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seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
She cloistered herself in the office -
surround with a cloister
cloister the garden
NOUN
- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
How To Use cloister In A Sentence
- Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic? An Autobiography
- Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
- But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
- But there was the nagging fact, for me, always, of the apartness, the undeniable cloistering from men. Times, Sunday Times
- The feudal system is cloistered and I welcomed the change as it gave me a chance to grow emotionally and spiritually.
- Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
- Her design style was said to be greatly influenced by the days in cloister: SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1012
- On our left, the elegant old dowager Cloister slept in its garden of flowers, under its arching canopy of ancient oaks. DOWNTOWN
- More than 25 years ago, Koestenbaum traded the cloistered halls of academia for the front lines of the global economy.
- Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally.