cloistre

English

Noun

cloistre (plural cloistres)

  1. Obsolete form of cloister.

Anagrams

French

Noun

cloistre m (plural cloistres)

  1. Archaic spelling of cloître.
    • 1601, Pierre Charron, De la sagesse, praeface:
      […] j’ay respondu que je ne formois icy ou instruisois un homme pour le cloistre, mais pour le monde, la vie commune et civile […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French cloistre, from Medieval Latin claustrum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈklɔi̯stər/, /ˈklɔːstər/

Noun

cloistre

  1. A monastery or cloister; a place where a monastic lifestyle is practiced.
  2. A cloister (roofed path, especially at a monastic complex)
  3. That which is cloistered; a confined location.
  4. (figurative, rare) The uterus as a protective location.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • English: cloister
  • Scots: closter (< closter)

References

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cloistre.

Noun

cloistre m (plural cloistres)

  1. cloister
    • a. 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
      Metrodorus vivoit du pois de douze onces par jour, Epicurus à moins; Metroclez dormoit en hyver avec les moutons, en esté aux cloistres des Eglises.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”).

Noun

cloistre oblique singular, m (oblique plural cloistres, nominative singular cloistres, nominative plural cloistre)

  1. cloister

Descendants

References
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