[ˈklɔɪstə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side
(e.g: the shadowed cloisters of the convent)


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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’

[ˈklɔɪstə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery
(e.g: the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate)


Phrases:

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’