cloister
noun
a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
cloister-like
-
a word derived from
cloister.
Example Sentences
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Walking underneath the Santa Cruz regrowth, intoxicated by the look and smells of those cloister-like forests I forgot that the enormous creatures above me were mostly youngsters.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2018
Twelve miles out on Philadelphia's socialite Main Line, Bryn Mawr's prim, cloister-like campus last week lay nearly deserted.
From Time Magazine Archive
His own room, shared by a quiet and steady Richmond boy with whom he had a slight acquaintance at home, was in one of the cloister-like dormitories opening upon the main lawn.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard
A secluded student in the almost cloister-like retirement of home, this bearing was wholly novel and strange to him.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
In her almost cloister-like seclusion, she sought to gather the mantle of oblivion about her heart.
From Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
