Cloister vs Claustral - What's the difference?
cloister | claustral |
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
# such arcade in a monastery
# such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
(figuratively) The monastic life
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with (a) cloister(s).
To protect or isolate.
As a noun cloister
is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:.As a verb cloister
is to become a roman catholic religious.As an adjective claustral is
of or pertaining to a cloister.cloister
English
Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it