cloisters

/K L OY1 S T ER0 Z/

noun

1
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
2
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3
The monastic life.

verb

1
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
2
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
3
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
4
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
“The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.”
5
To protect or isolate.

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