cloistral
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And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2016
Commissioned from Barragán by Mr. Prieto’s grandparents, Casa Prieto López is larger than the architect’s own house, more monumental, and is set amid cloistral walled gardens for which enchanted is no empty adjective.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
His prose was described by James Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus as "cloistral silverveined."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010
Yet in the circumscribed foreground space, there is a cloistral hush that is completely monastic.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is owing to such regulations as these that life in the English college has the name of being cloistral.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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