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Oct. 24, 2014
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\KLOI-ster\
verb
1. to confine in retirement; seclude.
2. to confine in a monastery or convent.
Quotes
That's when I began to cloister myself, when I saw her strength, her determination to pull me out of my brooding.
-- Manil Suri, The City of Devi, 2013
Origin
Cloister comes from an Anglo-French blend of cloison, meaning "partition," and clostre, from the Late Latin word meaning "enclosed place."
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