cloister

Above the flowery cloisters, ferocious-looking gargoyles ignored the children noisily chasing each other and stretched toward the indigo late-summer sky, praying for rain.

The idea of the silence and solitude of the cloister inspired the highly-imaginative girl with a blaze of enthusiasm.

Yes, I knew he would not be in, and so we left him lying down on the bench in the cloister till dinner was over.

I am not sure whether a cloister or a prison, commanding a fine view, be preferable to one without.

You will hear of him; he does not live in a cloister; he is always doing something for somebody.

In the Cloister garden of the Cathedral are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman warrior.