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cloisters

/ˈklɔɪstɚz/

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What does cloisters mean?

noun

  1. plural of cloister

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cloister

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈklɔɪstɚz/

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In our house there lodg'd a young woman, a milliner, who, I think, had a shop in the Cloisters.
Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinProject Gutenberg ebook #148
Chopin suffered with the cold, the cooking made him sick, and he used to have fits of terror in the cloisters.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
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There was a near way between his Palace and the Cathedral, by some beautiful old cloisters which you may yet see.
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699
It was put up over the north half of the eastern cloisters, relatively the same position as at Salisbury and Wells.
Ernest Albert SavageOld English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle AgesProject Gutenberg ebook #1615
The long dark corridors and gloomy cloisters struck me as very inappropriate in the midst of this young and radiant nature.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440