Sentences with cloister
clois·ter
C c - The thirteenth-century cloisters are amongst the most beautiful in central Italy.
- The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
- It burst out of the cloister of academia and onto the world stage when one of its leading exponents, Daniel Kahneman.
- But the cloister's dormitories, kitchen, library and washing areas gave us a sense of what a monk's life was like; slow, contemplative.
- It might have echoes of Italian cloister gardens, the canals and window flower boxes of Amsterdam and Venice.
- Cloister is the general term for a place of religious seclusion, for either men or women, and emphasizes in connotation retirement from the world; , convent, once a general term synonymous with , cloister, is now usually restricted to such a place for women (nuns), formerly called a , nunnery; , monastery usually refers to a cloister for men (monks); an , abbey is a cloister ruled by an abbot or abbess; a , priory is a cloister ruled by a prior or prioress and is sometimes a subordinate branch of an abbey