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Meanings of cloistered in English

Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.

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Providing privacy or seclusion.

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Usage of cloistered in English
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Anies should have been delivered into a cloistered nunnery thirty years ago.
Surrender to the will of the night
2
No longer cloistered among freshman, he found it harder to be noticed.
Climbing Magazine
3
Her cloistered upbringing has not prepared her very well for this moment.
Napoleon
4
Gower has his lover hear tales from a confessor in cloistered quiet.
Halleck's New English Literature
5
We wander through cloistered courts into the main body of the church.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
6
The occupants were cloistered in a windowless conference room arguing administrative trivia.
Devil Bones
7
His small feet were cloistered in small, thick boots of glittering brilliance.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
8
There is a fine cloistered court with a long gallery above it.
Daniel Deronda
9
Once Pity and Charity perched on every cloistered gate and cried, 'welcome.'
Wise or Otherwise
10
They are looking for the females cloistered in the retirement of the cells.
Bramble-Bees and Others
11
She needed freedom, not the cloistered confines of her private chambers.
The notorious scoundrel
12
Probably this is so-certainly it is the most cloistered and the most inaccessible.
Europe Revised
13
He displayed the fears, the unwittingness, the open candour of a cloistered maiden.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
14
Hegan lived all his life cloistered with books in a world of agitation.
Burning Daylight
15
A cloistered nun, which is why it was so difficult to contact her.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
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The Guardian
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Cloistered across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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