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    clois·ter
    [ˈkloistər]
    noun
    cloister (noun) · cloisters (plural noun) · the cloister (noun)
    1. a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other:
      "the shadowed cloisters of the convent"
      • a convent or monastery.
      • (the cloister)
        monastic life:
        "he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword"
    verb
    cloister (verb) · cloisters (third person present) · cloistered (past tense) · cloistered (past participle) · cloistering (present participle)
    1. seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery:
      "the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate" · "she cloisters herself at home"
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’.
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    noun
    1. a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other:
    verb
    1. seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery:
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