cloister
noun
a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
cloisterlike
-
a word derived from
cloister.
Example Sentences
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In the daylight, with the pigeons on the sills and the morning sunlight printing the cross of the church steeple on the whitewashed wall, it was peaceful, cloisterlike, with landings that were crypts.
From The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The earth lay clothed in a dim, subdued, cloisterlike light that gave it an air of mystery.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by J. (John) Macgowan
