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cloister noun & verb. ME.

A. noun.
A place of religious seclusion; a convent, a monastic house. ME.
the cloister monastic life, seclusion.
sing. & (freq.) in pl. A covered place for walking, often round a quadrangle with a wall on the outer and a colonnade or windows on the inner side, esp. of convent, college, or cathedral buildings. ME.
An enclosed space, an enclosure. obsolete exc. as passing into fig. uses of senses 1, 2. LME.
Comb.: cloister-garth the open court enclosed by a cloister.
b. verb trans.
Surround (as) with a cloister; convert into a cloister. LME.
Enclose or shut up in a cloister or religious house. L16.
Shut up in a secluded place. L16.
fig. Confine, restrain within narrow limits. E17.
cloistered adjective shut up (as) in a cloister; secluded, sheltered (lit. & fig.): L16.
cloisterer noun (now rare) a person who lives in a cloister, a monk or nun ME.
cloisterless adjective LME.
cloisterly adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a cloister L16.
cloistress noun (rare, Shakes.) a nun: only in E17.