claustral
/ˈklɔːstr(ə)l
/adjective
1Relating to a cloister or religious house: claustral buildings...
- Most frequently it seems it was either the abbot's lodgings or, as at Lacock Abbey, some of the claustral buildings which were adapted.
- A claustral oblate candidate may be received into the novitiate by the abbot with the consent of the chapter.
- By the 1930s it was divided into two dwellings and the several tenants of the claustral buildings included firms of printers and mineral water manufacturers.
2 literary Enveloping; confining: this claustral heat...
- At once claustral and emancipating, these poems announce that the event of life is meaningless without the form we give to it.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin claustralis, from Latin claustrum 'lock, enclosed place' (see cloister).
Rhymes
- Rolls Chapel
- Rolls, Charles Stewart
- Rolls Court
- Rolls edition
- Rolls House
- roll shutter
- roll something back
- roll something out
- roll something over
- roll something up
- Rolls-Royce
- Rolls-Royceless
- Rolls-Roycey
- Rolls Series
- roll stone
- roll sulfur
- roll sulphur
- roll tobacco
- roll-top desk
- roll tracery
- roll up
- roll-up-able
- roll up one's sleeves
- roll-uppable
- rollwaggon