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cloister
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cloister in the architectural sense

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The monks walked silently through the cloister that surrounded the garden courtyard.
cloister = covered walkway around a courtyard
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    The old university’s cloister provided a peaceful place for students to study and reflect.
    cloister = arched walkway beside a courtyard
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    I listened to it over and over while staring out at the north cloister.  (source)
    cloister = a covered walkway and the courtyard it surrounds
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    Now he's got the congregation to agree to tearing down half of that beautiful old church of ours, going to put up an education building with a cloistered walk leading out from the church—we saw the pictures, didn't we Editha?  (source)
    cloistered = a covered walkway with columns along one or more sides of a courtyard
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    Between the glowing columns of the cloister is the cool darkness that only churches have, and I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.  (source)
    cloister = a covered walkway and the courtyard it surrounds
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    The Gothic halls and cloisters were infinitely more mysterious as they loomed suddenly out of the darkness, outlined each by myriad faint squares of yellow light.†  (source)
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    The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger (even one spindly twelve year old rumored to have an IQ of 260) their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-seeming that it was as if they spoke some lost middle-school tongue I'd forgotten.†  (source)
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    It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamor.†  (source)
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    By the cloisterly Temple, and by Whitefriars (there, not without a glance at Hanging-Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far-famed elephant who has lost his castle formed of a thousand four-horse coaches to a stronger iron monster than he, ready to chop him into mince-meat any day he dares.†  (source)
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    It had been years since he had been there, but he remembered it being out through the cloister somewhere.†  (source)
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    Better, I think, that you all go upon the roof above the cloisters—say upon the Porch of Solomon.†  (source)
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    A cloistered Savannahian of the purest sort, Mrs. Strong had never been to Europe, and she was past fifty when she visited Charleston for the first time.†  (source)
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    Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.†  (source)
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    They turned right onto Third Avenue, and paused in front of a restaurant whose sign said CLOISTER CAFÉ.†  (source)
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cloister in the religious sense

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    After years of public life, he longed for the peace of a cloister.
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    A hive suggests cloister more than bordello.  (source)
    cloister = residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
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    A cloister is closed to the outside world, Adam.  (source)
    cloister = residence that is a place of religious seclusion
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The clink of glasses and the slap of hands on the bars issued from saloons, cloisters of glazed glass and dirty yellow light.  (source)
cloisters = a place of seclusion from the outside world -- usually a religious residence such as a monastery
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cloister as in:  cloister ourselves away

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    During the storm, the villagers cloistered their livestock in a protected barn.
    cloistered = kept safely away
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    These scholars broke with the cloistered tradition of mathematics in several important ways.  (source)
    cloistered = secluded from others (separate from others)
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    He supposed Ron and Hermione were cloistered in the prefects' carriage, but Ginny was a little way along the corridor, chatting to some friends.  (source)
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    Martha was a cloistered nun in a convent outside Portland, Maine.  (source)
    cloistered = seclude from the world
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    Drone of the engines, aisle lights very dim, stewardess asleep no doubt, or smoking a cigarette in her tight barren cloister musing on a dress she has half-finished, folded up in her closet to await her return, hidden carefully, sullenly, like all other signs of her existence, because her roommate has gentleman friends when she is gone, a working agreement: when she returns, exit roommate, and when she leaves again she vanishes utterly, like smoke.  (source)
    cloister = kept away from the outside world
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    We're not cloistered.  (source)
    cloistered = secluded from the world
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    I meant to cover it just as much as could be, Diana, but when I carried it in I was imagining I was a nun—of course I'm a Protestant but I imagined I was a Catholic—taking the veil to bury a broken heart in cloistered seclusion; and I forgot all about covering the pudding sauce.  (source)
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    ere the bat hath flown His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons,  (source)
    cloistered = secluded or hidden
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