Cloister

Definitions

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
2. such an arcade in a monastery;
3. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
4. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
5. The monastic life.
   figuratively

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