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
They dismounted in a fine court with cloister-like buildings round it, and full of people of all kinds, for no less than six hundred stout yeomen wore red coats and the bear and ragged staff.
From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge
It stands in the midst of a great throng of cloister-like buttes, with the same noble profiles and strong lineaments as those immediately before us, with a plexus of awful chasms between.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
It had only been recently built, and its principal characteristic was cloister-like order and tranquility.
From The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
