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cloistre

cloistre is the obsolete form of cloister.

Meaning of cloister

Noun

cloister (plural cloisters)

  1. such an arcade in a monastery;
  2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
  3. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
  4. (figuratively) The monastic life.

See all 9 meanings of cloister

Forms of cloistre

pluralcloistres

Questions about cloistre

What is cloistre the obsolete form of?
Cloistre is the obsolete form of cloister.

Words near cloistre in the dictionary

  1. cloisterless
  2. cloisterlike
  3. cloisterly
  4. cloisters
  5. cloistral
  6. cloistre
  7. cloistres
  8. cloistress
  9. cloistresses
  10. cloit
  11. Clojure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloistre (page history and authors); cloister (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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