MEANING
Relating to a cloister or the secluded life associated with a religious community.
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- cloistral life
- cloistral seclusion
- cloistral silence
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The diary described a cloistral life of prayer and work.
Cloistral silence separated the courtyard from the noisy street.
She valued the cloistral seclusion of the garden.
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- cloistral
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually non-gradable as a relation; more/most possible for figurative seclusion. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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