cloistral
adjEtymology
Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral.
- derived from cloistral
- derived from claustrālis
Definitions
Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.
- As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.
- Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.
Sheltered from the world
Sheltered from the world; monastic.
- Speak not! he is consecrated— / Breathe no breath across his eyes: / Lifted up and separated / On the hand of God he lies, / In a sweetness beyond touching,—held in cloistral sanctities.
Secluded.
- [C]loistral avenues, / Where silence dwells if music be not there: […]
- Then, responsive to the bird’s insistence, / From the margin of some cloistral shore / Came a murmur up the hollow distance, / “On the morrow will I ope the door!”
The neighborhood
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA