cloistral
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And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2016
Commissioned from Barragán by Mr. Prieto’s grandparents, Casa Prieto López is larger than the architect’s own house, more monumental, and is set amid cloistral walled gardens for which enchanted is no empty adjective.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
His prose was described by James Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus as "cloistral silverveined."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010
In 1894 Walter Horatio Pater died at Oxford, having contributed to the "PreRaphaelite" revival an ideal of Art for Art's sake expressed in cloistral and cadenced prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
But then came, as it naturally would come to so charming and vigorous a lad, the strong return of that Dame Nature who had been so long forked forth by his cloistral life.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
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