cloister

The National Trust said the walls were the "buried remains of monastery buildings including a cloister and various other buildings, as well as later Tudor alterations".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

A row of vaults seem to be supported by 14 superslim columns but are, in fact, suspended from the ceiling and give the room the sheltered quality of a cloister.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

All the homies at the cloister are going to be rocking these.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

When Michelangelo was halfway across the cloister, I came to my senses.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Gothic arches in the creature's cell are from the vaulted arches of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

It offers contemporary art, scary medieval weapons and Gothic cloisters.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

The story is told with flair at STAM, the Ghent City Museum, whose very architecture — an amalgam of restored medieval cloisters and contemporary glass — reflects the modern city itself.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022

He carried Robin in and out of halls and chambers, kitchen and parlor, cloisters and outer court; through refectory and almonry, stopping, as always, in the chapel to say a prayer.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

Where Tumblr-ites dreamed of the cloistered quads and moody libraries of Princeton in the 2010s, TikTok-ers now obsess over the elaborate rituals of University of Alabama sororities.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

But until then, I cherish my cloistered time by the spoonful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Journalists who work for institutions are so cloistered and shut down at this point.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2025

A vast blaze has torn through the historic Bernaga Monastery in northern Italy, the Italian fire service said Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 22 cloistered nuns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025

After Maria’s cloistered life at Waltha, Amsterdam must have felt like the center of the world.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Others focus on exploring values or on navigating the dynamics of a family-owned business, cloistering the kids in hotel conference rooms or Aspen compounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Is that truck double-parked on the streets of New York part of a movie set, a luxury trailer for cloistering camera-shy movie stars?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020

Also, reframe this into a gift of time—during this period of conscientious cloistering, as an opportunity to pursue talents and to “cultivate your garden.”

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2020

And they say they have considered adding metal detectors, only to conclude that they are unnecessary and cloistering.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2018

I hang up and run to the bathroom, steamy and cloistering.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali