cloister garth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cloister garth
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Before the cathedral is the pretty cloister garth, with the chapel of St Anne, erected in 1321 and restored in 1888.
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He died at Bournemouth on the 15th of December 1885, and was buried in the cloister garth of Chester.
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The cloister garth, with its sixty white marble columns, charmed and impressed me; but all molto triste.
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In the cloister garth are two graves perhaps as well worth visiting as ever Becket's was, though no miracles have yet occurred at them.
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May we not yet hope that this spot will be spared the fate of the cloister garth?
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