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cloistral

adjective as in cloistered

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With its refined finishes and clean lines, the house at first seems diametrically opposed to the cloistral modesty of a building like Vivienda Takuru.

And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.

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.

Within that court formerly stood the cloistral buildings, of which little now remains.

It is probably the seclusion, the cloistral repose, of the Quarter that attracts the student and the scholar.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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