Cloister: alternatives and connections

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street a…

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A court or inclosure attached to a house.

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To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

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To make an island of.

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To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

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The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a…

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To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

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To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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A coming together; a meeting.

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A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for fem…

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A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience…

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