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Cloisters

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:

📖 Definitions of "Cloisters"

noun
  1. 1

    A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:

  2. 2

    A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

  3. 3

    The monastic life.

verb
  1. 1

    To become a Roman Catholic religious.

  2. 2

    To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

  3. 3

    To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

  4. 4

    To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

    "The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it."

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