cloister
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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
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
All the homies at the cloister are going to be rocking these.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2023
An enormous eagle-owl who was sometimes used as a decoy, but who was at present standing on a perch in the shade of the cloister, opened his eyes when the bells rang.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing cloister
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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