1) Abbey 2) Cocktail with gin 3) Convent or monastery 4) Covered colonnaded passage 5) Feudal word 6) Feudal term 7) French word used in English 8) Monastery or convent 9) Part of many a convent 10) Place of seclusion 11) Protect and seclude 12) Religious place of seclusion 13) Religious residence 14) Religious site
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1) Abbey 2) Convent 3) Isolate 4) Monastery 5) Priory 6) Seclude
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Part of a convent or monastery reserved for use by members of the order that live in that facility.
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A cloister (from Latin claustrum, `enclosure`) is an open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is (or.....
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• (v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. • (v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; • (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. • (v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from t...
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quadrilateral enclosure surrounded by covered walkways, and usually attached to a monastic or cathedral church and sometimes to a college. The term ... [4 related articles]
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In architecture, a quadrangle surrounded by walkways or covered passages for shelter from rain, attached to monastic buildings and cathedrals, and often also...
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This is a covered walkway around the courtyard within a monastery. It was used as a place of ceremony - including processions, foot-washing (to imitate Jesus) and readings in the Collation service. Since the collation readings were not devotional sitting was allowed. The monks sat beneath decorative arches. The reader stood in a pulpit - standing d...
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Internal courtyard of a monastery or convent with a portico of slender columns supporting a roof and resting on a low wall.
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four-sided enclosure with a covered walk along each side connecting a church with the principal administrative and domestic buildings
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Clois'ter noun [ Old French
cloistre , French
cloître , Latin
claustrum , plural
claustra , bar, bolt, bounds, from
claudere ,
clausum , to close. See
Close ,
transitive verb , and confer
Claustral .]
1. An i...
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Clois'ter transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cloistered ;
present participle & verbal noun Cloistering .] To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. « None among them are thought worthy to b...
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Part of a monastery; a quadrangle surrounded by covered passages. It connects the domestic parts of the monastery with the church. Usually located on the south side of the church.
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The term cloister is applied to a monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
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A cloister is a covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; the term is also applied to a series of such passages on the different sides of any court, especially that of a monastery or a college. Cloisters are. always contiguous to the church, and are arranged round three or four sides of a quadrangular area, with numerous large windows l...
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part of a convent or monastery reserved for use by members of the institute.
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[
n] - a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) 2. [v] - surround with a cloister, as of a garden 3. [v] - seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
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four-sided enclosure with a covered walk along each side connecting a church with the principal administrative and domestic buildings
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A covered passage around a quadrangle at the side of the church.
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verb seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; `She cloistered herself in the office`
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In architecture, a quadrangle surrounded by walkways or covered passages for shelter from rain, attached to monastic buildings and cathedrals, and often also to colleges. The church would be linked to other areas of the convent or monastery via the cloisters
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a covered walk, esp. in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard. · a courtyard, esp. in a religious institution, bordered with such walks. · a place of religious seclusion, as a monastery or convent. · any quiet, secluded place. · life in a monastery or convent.
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