cloister
Example Sentences
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He was born into the cloistered art world as the son of a German Jewish art dealer who fled Berlin in the 1930s and restarted his business in London.
She picked Gita Kaur, whose grandmother had kept Gita virtually cloistered in the family house in Nairobi until she was 19.
There the nun discovers her own inner sleuth, and unexpectedly finds joy in life outside the cloister.
Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.
The Gothic arches in the creature's cell are from the vaulted arches of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
