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cloister

[kloi-ster] / ˈklɔɪ stər /


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There the nun discovers her own inner sleuth, and unexpectedly finds joy in life outside the cloister.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

A chocolate kitchen, chocolate serving room, chocolate cloister and full chocolate staff are optional.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 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

He raced back up the slope, scrabbling over low stone walls, and pelted through the sheepfold, past the garden and through the cloister, still gripping his apple branch swords.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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