meaning of cloisters

1. An inclosed place.
2.
A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
3.
the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
4.
A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
5.
To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.


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