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cloistral

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9 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted acillorstStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

Word origin

Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral.

Used in a sentence

  • As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.
  • Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.
  • [T]he three men followed, rushing into the hall, pausing, bringing with them into its stale and cloistral dimness something of the savage summer sunlight which they had just left.

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