Cortile vs Cloister - What's the difference?
cortile | cloister |
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 nouns the difference between cortile and cloister
is that cortile is (architecture) an internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky while 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.cortile
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cloister
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Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
