cloister
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Local Catholic women raised funds to build the nuns a new cloister, chapel and office complex on site in 1948, the buildings designed by celebrated architect Wallace Neff.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
The centre is described as a series of red brick "pavilions" housing care and social spaces, stitched together by a central timber "cloister".
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023
To communicate with volunteers and priests, the sisters normally spoke through a turn, a barrel-shaped revolving cabinet used to pass goods into the monastery without violating the cloister.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023
The last time that Fernanda saw her, trying to keep up with the novice, the iron grating of the cloister had just closed behind her.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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