cloister

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Buildings, Christianitycloisterclois‧ter /ˈklɔɪstə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 [usually plural]TBB a covered passage that surrounds one side of a square garden in a church, monastery etc2 RRCa building where monks or nuns liveExamples from the Corpuscloister• Courtyards and cloisters are pools of shadow and lamp-light.• St. Francis of Assisi originally founded the cloister which now encloses a garden and well.• We left the guest house, going through stone-vaulted passageways into the cloister garth.• The cloisters are equally fine and on the north side date from 1170 like the portal.• The cloisters are fine and have varied and original carved columns and capitals.• Thrusting spires, softened by time; vaulted cloisters floored with cobbles trod thin by genius.Origin cloister (1200-1300) Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum “bar keeping a door closed”, from claudere “to close”

单词	cloister
释义	cloister From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Buildings, Christianitycloisterclois‧ter /ˈklɔɪstə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 [usually plural]TBB a covered passage that surrounds one side of a square garden in a church, monastery etc2 RRCa building where monks or nuns liveExamples from the Corpuscloister• Courtyards and cloisters are pools of shadow and lamp-light.• St. Francis of Assisi originally founded the cloister which now encloses a garden and well.• We left the guest house, going through stone-vaulted passageways into the cloister garth.• The cloisters are equally fine and on the north side date from 1170 like the portal.• The cloisters are fine and have varied and original carved columns and capitals.• Thrusting spires, softened by time; vaulted cloisters floored with cobbles trod thin by genius.Origin cloister (1200-1300) Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum “bar keeping a door closed”, from claudere “to close”
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