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What (who) is Cloister - definition

OPEN SPACE SURROUNDED BY COVERED WALKS OR OPEN GALLERIES
Cloisters; Cloistered; Claustral; Cloister arcade
  • Cloister at [[Salisbury Cathedral]], UK.
  • The Cloisters at [[Gloucester Cathedral]], UK

cloister         
(cloisters)
A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
N-COUNT
cloister         
n.
1.
Convent-walk, abbey-walk, arched ambulatory.
2.
Convent, monastery, abbey, nunnery, priory.
3.
Arcade, colonnade, colonnaded court, piazza.
cloister         
['kl??st?]
¦ noun
1. a covered, and typically colonnaded, passage round an open court in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral.
2. a convent or monastery.
(the cloister) monastic life.
¦ verb seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
Derivatives
cloistral adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. cloistre, from L. claustrum, clostrum 'lock, enclosed place', from claudere, 'to close'.

Wikipedia

Cloister

A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is (or once was) part of a monastic foundation, "forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier... that effectively separates the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went forward outside and around the cloister."

Cloistered (or claustral) life is also another name for the monastic life of a monk or nun. The English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law translations to mean cloistered, and some form of the Latin parent word "claustrum" is frequently used as a metonymic name for monastery in languages such as German.

Examples of use of Cloister
1. Could the Leominster structure lurking under the cloister car park be part of Leofrics gift to Leominsters church?
2. The leaders signed the treaty in the monastery‘s cloister, taking turns to sign under the hall‘s elaborate arches while Beethoven‘s Ode to Joy was played in the background.
3. The treaty signing at noon will take place in the cloister of Lisbon‘s Jeronimos Monastery, a symbol of Portugal‘s power in the 15th and 16th centuries.
4. That they would trade the convent cloister for the marriage bed, maintaining vows of obedience in both, seeing no difference between bride of Christ or Christopher?
5. Among the people gathered in the quad with its arched–domed cloister and ivy–covered walls was William‘s private secretary Jamie Lowther–Pinkerton and his former Eton headmaster Andrew Gailey.