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cloister

[kloi-ster] / ˈklɔɪ stər /


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Local Catholic women raised funds to build the nuns a new cloister, chapel and office complex on site in 1948, the buildings designed by celebrated architect Wallace Neff.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

The centre is described as a series of red brick "pavilions" housing care and social spaces, stitched together by a central timber "cloister".

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

They should be able to move into a modular cloister of about 3,500 square feet on the donated land by year’s end, Pfaff said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

But Aureliano himself seemed to prefer the cloister of solitude and he did not show the least desire to know the world that began at the street door of the house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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