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Meanings of cloistered nun in English

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Woman who lives in a monastery that is closed to the outside world.

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        Examples for "nun"
        1
        Of course a nun wouldn't know when to let well enough alone.
        The Descent
        2
        What she needed now, the good nun said, was rest and sympathy.
        Letter to my daughter: a novel
        3
        Comments by the nun in charge of the children are given throughout.
        The new yorker
        4
        One is said to be a nun who died four centuries ago.
        Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
        5
        She is a former nun who was debauched long ago by Docre.
        Down There
        1
        The cloistress said nothing, merely inclined her head.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        2
        He did not hear the cloistress leave.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        3
        The cloistress appeared in the doorway.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        4
        In the darkness of the hall she met gazes with Cloistress Gannet.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        Usage of cloistered nun in English
        1
        A cloistered nun, which is why it was so difficult to contact her.
        Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
        2
        She wanted to meditate over the events of her life, like a cloistered nun.
        Beatrix
        3
        Lucia is a cloistered nun living in Portugal.
        The Irish Times
        4
        You are not a cloistered nun, Sister.
        The White Sister
        5
        Abelard answered in a letter, friendly to be sure, but formal-theletter of a priest to a cloistered nun.
        Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1
        6
        She prayed him, therefore, that he would grant her leave to depart, since she would serve God as a cloistered nun.
        French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
        7
        Are you of those who think a husband should come to them as one whose youth has been the youth of cloistered nun?
        Mistress Wilding
        8
        Anne pinned the violets in the front of the gray frock that gave her the look of a cloistered nun, and ate up the chocolates.
        The Gay Cockade
        9
        Here she gave me the name of a private society of cloistered nuns in the heart of Rome.
        The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill
        10
        The nurses had come from many places, and, like cloistered nuns, seemed to have left the other world behind.
        K
        11
        'Mary has been kept as secluded as a cloistered nun.
        Phantom Fortune, a Novel
        12
        Do you suppose there is an item of news in the whole town that those cloistered nuns do not hear?
        Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
        13
        "Your ideas of life and of men are like a cloistered nun's," said I.
        The Deluge
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