All 12 Uses of
cloister
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Others choose lives of asceticism within our cloistered residence halls.†
Chpt 5
- Moreover, the abbey had a series of sprawling cloisters attached.†
Chpt 97-98 *
- It had been years since he had been there, but he remembered it being out through the cloister somewhere.†
Chpt 97-98
- THIS WAY TO: CLOISTERS DEANERY COLLEGE HALL MUSEUM PYX CHAMBER ST. FAITH'S CHAPEL CHAPTER HOUSE Langdon and Sophie were jogging as they passed beneath the sign, moving too quickly to notice the small announcement apologizing that certain areas were closed for renovations.†
Chpt 97-98
- These walkways were called cloisters, and Langdon noted with uneasiness that these particular cloisters lived up to their Latin ties to the word claustrophobic.†
Chpt 97-98
- These walkways were called cloisters, and Langdon noted with uneasiness that these particular cloisters lived up to their Latin ties to the word claustrophobic.†
Chpt 97-98
- The rain was spitting now, and the walkway was cold and damp with gusts of rain that blew through the lone pillared wall that was the cloister's only source of light.†
Chpt 97-98
- The cloisters looked deserted now, admittedly the abbey's least enticing section in the wind and rain.†
Chpt 97-98
- Forty yards down the east cloister, an archway materialized on their left, giving way to another hallway.†
Chpt 97-98
- "We just left the east cloister," Langdon said, "so the south exit to the garden must be through there and to the right."†
Chpt 97-98
- As they hurried down the dark corridor, the sounds of the wind and rain from the open cloister faded behind them.†
Chpt 97-98
- After the gloomy cloisters, the Chapter House felt like a solarium.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(cloister in the architectural sense) a covered walkway and the courtyard it surrounds with an open colonnade on one side of the walkway and the perimeter building walls on the other side -- especially as an area of quiet contemplation on religious grounds