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

In 1894 Walter Horatio Pater died at Oxford, having contributed to the "PreRaphaelite" revival an ideal of Art for Art's sake expressed in cloistral and cadenced prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

The least objectionable occasion for leaving cloistral precincts was when convent business demanded it and this happened frequently to the superior and the treasuress or cellaress.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen