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Word: Cloister
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’
ˈklɔɪstə
a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side
Short Definition:covered walk in convent, monastery, college, or cathedral
Examples:- the shadowed cloisters of the convent
Word: Cloister
Speech Type: Verb
ˈklɔɪstə
seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery
Short Definition:seclude or shut up in convent or monastery
Examples:- the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate
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