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clois·ter (kloístər)

[Middle English cloistre, from Old French, alteration (influenced by cloison, partition), of clostre, from Latin claustrum, enclosed place, from claudere, to close.]

noun 

  1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.
    1. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
    2. Life in a monastery or convent.
  3. A secluded, quiet place.

transitive verb: -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. 

  1. To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude.
  2. To furnish (a building) with a cloister.