Definition of cloister in English:

cloister

noun ˈklɔɪstəˈklɔɪstər

1A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
the shadowed cloisters of the convent
Example sentencesExamples
- In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk.
- Luca Signorelli started the decorative scheme with nine lunettes on the west side of the cloister.
- It seemed that overnight they arrived, set up an office in the Cathedral cloisters, and sent out a troop of black-plumed guards to bring me to their head official.
- The same serrated silhouette rounds off the long workshop volume on the opposite side of the cloister.
- There is a small archaeological museum in the cloisters of the cathedral.
- A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday.
- Maithris looked up at the question, then back to trailing a finger along the slender cast-iron columns fronting the cloister as we walked.
- As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers.
- ‘It used to be like an open cloister but the archways were closed in,’ explained Mr Purslow.
- Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery.
- Cain walked down the winding cloisters towards the prison cells and thought of the misery surrounding him now.
- The cloisters and gardens are also open with the Fox Talbot Museum between February 26 and April 1.
- Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally.
- Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks.
- Sitting rooms lead off a wide, airy corridor, like a convent cloister, where light floods in.
- The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches.
- We emerged from a doorway into a cloister surrounding a huge open field: the very core of the Citadel.
- The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters.
- Danti's design of the monastery cloisters was particularly fine.
- The many arches of the cloisters sprawled outward from the tower casting long irregular shadows in the early morning light.
Synonyms
walkway, covered walk, corridor, aisle, arcade, loggia, gallery, piazza
technical colonnade, ambulatory, stoa
1. 1.1 A convent or monastery.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.
  Henket solved the problem with one bold basic move: creating a glass and metal bridge at first floor level along the north side of the cloister.
  The very texts that the monks were reading in the cloister were often decorated with a similar repertoire of disturbing creatures.
  In turn, this plan was copied and adopted in cloisters and monasteries throughout Europe.
  Often the cloister was the only refuge for women who wanted to pursue learning and be active in scholarly life.
  Sirens, the most common hybrids to be included in Romanesque sculpture, appear frequently in the context of the monastic cloister.
  Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms.
  Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister.
  Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification.
  There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.
  She who had abandoned the world outside the cloister walls found the microcosm of the community within too large.
  Pagodas and Buddhist cloisters are another landmark of Yunnan.
  Before, books and maps were produced and copied by monks in cloisters.
  The setting is revolutionary France and a cloister of Carmelite nuns.
  There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole.
  He was born at York and educated in the cloister school there under Archbishop Egbert.
  The opera follows the destiny of Blanche de la Force as she enters the cloister at Compiegne, painting a portrait in sound of the humble, neurotic heroine.
  Many significant people, scholars and nonscholars, enrich the Orthodox cloisters.
  Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery.
  And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters.
  Synonyms
  abbey, monastery, friary, convent, priory, nunnery, religious house, religious community
  historical charterhouse
  rare coenobium, coenoby
2. 1.2the cloister Monastic life.
  he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword
  Example sentencesExamples
  In other words, this is not a matter of supporting the cloister against the school, advocating lectio divina while rejecting ordered learning and disputation.
  This embrace of the mystical dimension of faith does not require withdrawal to the cloister or a privatized Christianity.
  They can simply say something such as ‘I am of the Cloister, and my cloister is of deep seclusion.’
  Thomas Merton described in a letter to Dorothy Day the movement of his spirit from the cloister to the world.
  Jedidah, before you commit yourself to the cloisters, we want to give you a choice.
  When we meet Jesus in the medieval West, it is, in these and other ways, most often as the Christ of the cloisters.

verb ˈklɔɪstəˈklɔɪstər

[with object]

Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate
Example sentencesExamples
- By the fifteenth century in England, even the regular clergy were rarely so tightly cloistered as to cut them off from social relations.
- Neatly dressed, hands gloved, Erika pushes by the staring men and cloisters herself in private video booths.
- Fay was never terribly good at living, so it makes sense that she would eventually cloister herself away behind a typewriter.
- For two years, he cloistered himself in a cave overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Taipei County and meditated on the questions of life and death.
- After saying for a year that he would not resign, he finally stepped down and cloistered himself for a while in a monastery until his appointment in Rome.
- His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth.
- Yet for our ministers, cloistered from economic reality, it's business as usual.
- ‘He's uncomfortable with it, so I tend to do it secretly, when I'm alone in the house or by cloistering myself in the bathroom,’ she admits.
- When guests are present they are expected to cloister themselves from view.
- The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few.
- Like many kids growing up in the mid-1960s, I spent countless hours cloistered in my room assembling those multicolored bricks.
- In this house they can cloister their passion freely since Maggie and Adam have in a sense pushed them together.
Synonyms
confine, isolate, shut away, sequester, seclude, closet

Derivatives

cloistral

adjective ˈklɔɪstrəlˈklɔɪstrəl

Many generations have listened to this tale of a young girl high in her cloistral tower lowering her beautiful hair on command to an enchantress.
Example sentencesExamples
- This building from the first quarter of the 18th century became home to a century-old cloistral tradition.
- In the baroque atmosphere of the cloistral reading room you can enjoy exclusive dinners or cultural highlights.
- In the mid-18th century the cloistral buildings were demolished and a barracks for a regiment of English soldiers built there.
- The former cloistral building of the ‘Augustiner-Eremiten’ with its Gothic cloister and its high church room creates an impressive atmosphere.

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'.

Rhymes

hoister, oyster, roister

Definition of cloister in US English:

cloister

nounˈklɔɪstərˈkloistər

1A 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.
Example sentencesExamples
- In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk.
- It seemed that overnight they arrived, set up an office in the Cathedral cloisters, and sent out a troop of black-plumed guards to bring me to their head official.
- Maithris looked up at the question, then back to trailing a finger along the slender cast-iron columns fronting the cloister as we walked.
- The cloisters and gardens are also open with the Fox Talbot Museum between February 26 and April 1.
- We emerged from a doorway into a cloister surrounding a huge open field: the very core of the Citadel.
- Cain walked down the winding cloisters towards the prison cells and thought of the misery surrounding him now.
- There is a small archaeological museum in the cloisters of the cathedral.
- The many arches of the cloisters sprawled outward from the tower casting long irregular shadows in the early morning light.
- Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks.
- The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters.
- Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery.
- Sitting rooms lead off a wide, airy corridor, like a convent cloister, where light floods in.
- As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers.
- Luca Signorelli started the decorative scheme with nine lunettes on the west side of the cloister.
- The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches.
- A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday.
- ‘It used to be like an open cloister but the archways were closed in,’ explained Mr Purslow.
- The same serrated silhouette rounds off the long workshop volume on the opposite side of the cloister.
- Danti's design of the monastery cloisters was particularly fine.
- Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally.
Synonyms
walkway, covered walk, corridor, aisle, arcade, loggia, gallery, piazza
1. 1.1 A convent or monastery.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister.
  The opera follows the destiny of Blanche de la Force as she enters the cloister at Compiegne, painting a portrait in sound of the humble, neurotic heroine.
  He was born at York and educated in the cloister school there under Archbishop Egbert.
  Henket solved the problem with one bold basic move: creating a glass and metal bridge at first floor level along the north side of the cloister.
  The very texts that the monks were reading in the cloister were often decorated with a similar repertoire of disturbing creatures.
  She who had abandoned the world outside the cloister walls found the microcosm of the community within too large.
  There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole.
  The setting is revolutionary France and a cloister of Carmelite nuns.
  Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification.
  In turn, this plan was copied and adopted in cloisters and monasteries throughout Europe.
  Before, books and maps were produced and copied by monks in cloisters.
  Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery.
  Many significant people, scholars and nonscholars, enrich the Orthodox cloisters.
  And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters.
  Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.
  Sirens, the most common hybrids to be included in Romanesque sculpture, appear frequently in the context of the monastic cloister.
  Pagodas and Buddhist cloisters are another landmark of Yunnan.
  Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms.
  There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.
  Often the cloister was the only refuge for women who wanted to pursue learning and be active in scholarly life.
  Synonyms
  abbey, monastery, friary, convent, priory, nunnery, religious house, religious community
2. 1.2the cloister Monastic life.
  he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jedidah, before you commit yourself to the cloisters, we want to give you a choice.
  Thomas Merton described in a letter to Dorothy Day the movement of his spirit from the cloister to the world.
  This embrace of the mystical dimension of faith does not require withdrawal to the cloister or a privatized Christianity.
  When we meet Jesus in the medieval West, it is, in these and other ways, most often as the Christ of the cloisters.
  In other words, this is not a matter of supporting the cloister against the school, advocating lectio divina while rejecting ordered learning and disputation.
  They can simply say something such as ‘I am of the Cloister, and my cloister is of deep seclusion.’

verbˈklɔɪstərˈkloistər

[with object]

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
Example sentencesExamples
- Like many kids growing up in the mid-1960s, I spent countless hours cloistered in my room assembling those multicolored bricks.
- When guests are present they are expected to cloister themselves from view.
- After saying for a year that he would not resign, he finally stepped down and cloistered himself for a while in a monastery until his appointment in Rome.
- Neatly dressed, hands gloved, Erika pushes by the staring men and cloisters herself in private video booths.
- For two years, he cloistered himself in a cave overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Taipei County and meditated on the questions of life and death.
- ‘He's uncomfortable with it, so I tend to do it secretly, when I'm alone in the house or by cloistering myself in the bathroom,’ she admits.
- Yet for our ministers, cloistered from economic reality, it's business as usual.
- Fay was never terribly good at living, so it makes sense that she would eventually cloister herself away behind a typewriter.
- The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few.
- In this house they can cloister their passion freely since Maggie and Adam have in a sense pushed them together.
- His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth.
- By the fifteenth century in England, even the regular clergy were rarely so tightly cloistered as to cut them off from social relations.
Synonyms
confine, isolate, shut away, sequester, seclude, closet

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’.

单词	cloister
释义	Definition of cloister in English: cloister noun ˈklɔɪstəˈklɔɪstər 1A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side. the shadowed cloisters of the convent Example sentencesExamples In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk. Luca Signorelli started the decorative scheme with nine lunettes on the west side of the cloister. It seemed that overnight they arrived, set up an office in the Cathedral cloisters, and sent out a troop of black-plumed guards to bring me to their head official. The same serrated silhouette rounds off the long workshop volume on the opposite side of the cloister. There is a small archaeological museum in the cloisters of the cathedral. A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday. Maithris looked up at the question, then back to trailing a finger along the slender cast-iron columns fronting the cloister as we walked. As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers. ‘It used to be like an open cloister but the archways were closed in,’ explained Mr Purslow. Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery. Cain walked down the winding cloisters towards the prison cells and thought of the misery surrounding him now. The cloisters and gardens are also open with the Fox Talbot Museum between February 26 and April 1. Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally. Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks. Sitting rooms lead off a wide, airy corridor, like a convent cloister, where light floods in. The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches. We emerged from a doorway into a cloister surrounding a huge open field: the very core of the Citadel. The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters. Danti's design of the monastery cloisters was particularly fine. The many arches of the cloisters sprawled outward from the tower casting long irregular shadows in the early morning light. Synonyms walkway, covered walk, corridor, aisle, arcade, loggia, gallery, piazza technical colonnade, ambulatory, stoa 1.1 A convent or monastery. Example sentencesExamples Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit. Henket solved the problem with one bold basic move: creating a glass and metal bridge at first floor level along the north side of the cloister. The very texts that the monks were reading in the cloister were often decorated with a similar repertoire of disturbing creatures. In turn, this plan was copied and adopted in cloisters and monasteries throughout Europe. Often the cloister was the only refuge for women who wanted to pursue learning and be active in scholarly life. Sirens, the most common hybrids to be included in Romanesque sculpture, appear frequently in the context of the monastic cloister. Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms. Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister. Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification. There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule. She who had abandoned the world outside the cloister walls found the microcosm of the community within too large. Pagodas and Buddhist cloisters are another landmark of Yunnan. Before, books and maps were produced and copied by monks in cloisters. The setting is revolutionary France and a cloister of Carmelite nuns. There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole. He was born at York and educated in the cloister school there under Archbishop Egbert. The opera follows the destiny of Blanche de la Force as she enters the cloister at Compiegne, painting a portrait in sound of the humble, neurotic heroine. Many significant people, scholars and nonscholars, enrich the Orthodox cloisters. Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery. And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters. Synonyms abbey, monastery, friary, convent, priory, nunnery, religious house, religious community historical charterhouse rare coenobium, coenoby 1.2the cloister Monastic life. he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword Example sentencesExamples In other words, this is not a matter of supporting the cloister against the school, advocating lectio divina while rejecting ordered learning and disputation. This embrace of the mystical dimension of faith does not require withdrawal to the cloister or a privatized Christianity. They can simply say something such as ‘I am of the Cloister, and my cloister is of deep seclusion.’ Thomas Merton described in a letter to Dorothy Day the movement of his spirit from the cloister to the world. Jedidah, before you commit yourself to the cloisters, we want to give you a choice. When we meet Jesus in the medieval West, it is, in these and other ways, most often as the Christ of the cloisters. verb ˈklɔɪstəˈklɔɪstər [with object] Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery. the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate Example sentencesExamples By the fifteenth century in England, even the regular clergy were rarely so tightly cloistered as to cut them off from social relations. Neatly dressed, hands gloved, Erika pushes by the staring men and cloisters herself in private video booths. Fay was never terribly good at living, so it makes sense that she would eventually cloister herself away behind a typewriter. For two years, he cloistered himself in a cave overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Taipei County and meditated on the questions of life and death. After saying for a year that he would not resign, he finally stepped down and cloistered himself for a while in a monastery until his appointment in Rome. His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth. Yet for our ministers, cloistered from economic reality, it's business as usual. ‘He's uncomfortable with it, so I tend to do it secretly, when I'm alone in the house or by cloistering myself in the bathroom,’ she admits. When guests are present they are expected to cloister themselves from view. The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few. Like many kids growing up in the mid-1960s, I spent countless hours cloistered in my room assembling those multicolored bricks. In this house they can cloister their passion freely since Maggie and Adam have in a sense pushed them together. Synonyms confine, isolate, shut away, sequester, seclude, closet Derivatives cloistral adjective ˈklɔɪstrəlˈklɔɪstrəl Many generations have listened to this tale of a young girl high in her cloistral tower lowering her beautiful hair on command to an enchantress. Example sentencesExamples This building from the first quarter of the 18th century became home to a century-old cloistral tradition. In the baroque atmosphere of the cloistral reading room you can enjoy exclusive dinners or cultural highlights. In the mid-18th century the cloistral buildings were demolished and a barracks for a regiment of English soldiers built there. The former cloistral building of the ‘Augustiner-Eremiten’ with its Gothic cloister and its high church room creates an impressive atmosphere. 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'. Rhymes hoister, oyster, roister Definition of cloister in US English: cloister nounˈklɔɪstərˈkloistər 1A 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. Example sentencesExamples In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk. It seemed that overnight they arrived, set up an office in the Cathedral cloisters, and sent out a troop of black-plumed guards to bring me to their head official. Maithris looked up at the question, then back to trailing a finger along the slender cast-iron columns fronting the cloister as we walked. The cloisters and gardens are also open with the Fox Talbot Museum between February 26 and April 1. We emerged from a doorway into a cloister surrounding a huge open field: the very core of the Citadel. Cain walked down the winding cloisters towards the prison cells and thought of the misery surrounding him now. There is a small archaeological museum in the cloisters of the cathedral. The many arches of the cloisters sprawled outward from the tower casting long irregular shadows in the early morning light. Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks. The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters. Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery. Sitting rooms lead off a wide, airy corridor, like a convent cloister, where light floods in. As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers. Luca Signorelli started the decorative scheme with nine lunettes on the west side of the cloister. The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches. A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday. ‘It used to be like an open cloister but the archways were closed in,’ explained Mr Purslow. The same serrated silhouette rounds off the long workshop volume on the opposite side of the cloister. Danti's design of the monastery cloisters was particularly fine. Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally. Synonyms walkway, covered walk, corridor, aisle, arcade, loggia, gallery, piazza 1.1 A convent or monastery. Example sentencesExamples Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister. The opera follows the destiny of Blanche de la Force as she enters the cloister at Compiegne, painting a portrait in sound of the humble, neurotic heroine. He was born at York and educated in the cloister school there under Archbishop Egbert. Henket solved the problem with one bold basic move: creating a glass and metal bridge at first floor level along the north side of the cloister. The very texts that the monks were reading in the cloister were often decorated with a similar repertoire of disturbing creatures. She who had abandoned the world outside the cloister walls found the microcosm of the community within too large. There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole. The setting is revolutionary France and a cloister of Carmelite nuns. Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification. In turn, this plan was copied and adopted in cloisters and monasteries throughout Europe. Before, books and maps were produced and copied by monks in cloisters. Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery. Many significant people, scholars and nonscholars, enrich the Orthodox cloisters. And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters. Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit. Sirens, the most common hybrids to be included in Romanesque sculpture, appear frequently in the context of the monastic cloister. Pagodas and Buddhist cloisters are another landmark of Yunnan. Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms. There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule. Often the cloister was the only refuge for women who wanted to pursue learning and be active in scholarly life. Synonyms abbey, monastery, friary, convent, priory, nunnery, religious house, religious community 1.2the cloister Monastic life. he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword Example sentencesExamples Jedidah, before you commit yourself to the cloisters, we want to give you a choice. Thomas Merton described in a letter to Dorothy Day the movement of his spirit from the cloister to the world. This embrace of the mystical dimension of faith does not require withdrawal to the cloister or a privatized Christianity. When we meet Jesus in the medieval West, it is, in these and other ways, most often as the Christ of the cloisters. In other words, this is not a matter of supporting the cloister against the school, advocating lectio divina while rejecting ordered learning and disputation. They can simply say something such as ‘I am of the Cloister, and my cloister is of deep seclusion.’ verbˈklɔɪstərˈkloistər [with object] 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 Example sentencesExamples Like many kids growing up in the mid-1960s, I spent countless hours cloistered in my room assembling those multicolored bricks. When guests are present they are expected to cloister themselves from view. After saying for a year that he would not resign, he finally stepped down and cloistered himself for a while in a monastery until his appointment in Rome. Neatly dressed, hands gloved, Erika pushes by the staring men and cloisters herself in private video booths. For two years, he cloistered himself in a cave overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Taipei County and meditated on the questions of life and death. ‘He's uncomfortable with it, so I tend to do it secretly, when I'm alone in the house or by cloistering myself in the bathroom,’ she admits. Yet for our ministers, cloistered from economic reality, it's business as usual. Fay was never terribly good at living, so it makes sense that she would eventually cloister herself away behind a typewriter. The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few. In this house they can cloister their passion freely since Maggie and Adam have in a sense pushed them together. His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth. By the fifteenth century in England, even the regular clergy were rarely so tightly cloistered as to cut them off from social relations. Synonyms confine, isolate, shut away, sequester, seclude, closet 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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