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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

To communicate with volunteers and priests, the sisters normally spoke through a turn, a barrel-shaped revolving cabinet used to pass goods into the monastery without violating the cloister.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

One was at the north end of the Honeycomb, above the place where the tree roots formed a kind of cloister in the burrow.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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