(v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
(v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
(v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The officially authorised Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement , and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, are organised in such a way as to cloister Chinese Christians from foreign influence.
(2) The chapel, where in the last series Sister Bernadette struggled to reconcile her vocation with her love for widowed GP Dr Turner, is being turned into a spectacular four-bedroom, four-bathroom flat, using the central nave and west cloister corridor lit by a glass atrium.
(3) Rhinovirus challenge model in volunteers cloistered in individual hotel rooms.
(4) Before challenge and on each of 6 days of cloister, all volunteers were interviewed for symptoms and completed a test battery consisting of evaluations of secretion production by weighed tissues, nasal patency by active posterior rhinomanometry, nasal clearance by the dyed saccharin technique, pulmonary function by spirometry, eustachian tube function by sonotubometry, and middle ear status by tympanometry.
(5) No correlation was detected between ganglioside expression in normal brain and immunogenicity, consistent with this being a cloistered site.
(6) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(7) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(8) During cloister, symptoms also were scored by interview, nasal secretions were quantified and nasal washings were performed for viral culture.
(9) Cloistered in a vast Minnesotan home studio among umpteen hours of unreleased music, he often seemed the quintessential obsessive-compulsive auteur.
(10) To those in political life who misrecognise their own cloistered professional ideology as “pragmatism”, a purely tactical politics seems like the smart thing to do.
(11) You can see tears behind the eyes of the most seemingly impervious characters, with their funny, faux-period banter filtered through McDonagh's caustic, love-hate relationship with the cloistered world that still was around, albeit changing fast, in his youth.
(12) Also, weight of expelled secretions was greater and mucociliary clearance rate less on some cloister days for the placebo-treated group.
(13) It is best to enter from the Via della Mercede, have a look at Bernini 's magnificent statues of angels to your left, and then slip through the doors on the far side into the peaceful, slightly decrepit cloisters.
(14) Even at his most extroverted moments, Yves had been shielded by his cabal of intimates; towards the end, his world was reduced to his studio on Avenue Marceau, the couple's holiday home in Marrakech and the cloistered apartment on Rue de Babylone to which fewer and fewer people were admitted.
(15) We studied three different populations: cloistered nuns, white collar and blue collar workers.
(16) But life beyond the cloisters proved more perilous.
(17) Today the blasts have stopped, mostly, but the city is cloistered in concrete.
(18) Driving down an avenue near the Botanic Gardens later, and the buildings suddenly disappeared, the jungle pressed in overhead, and in the School of Visual Arts, a stunning Italianate villa in the Parque Lage, I sat in a cloistered cafe next to a courtyard pool, beneath a towering cliff face, the drone of the traffic the only indicator that I was still in a conurbation, not lost in a forgotten city in the middle of the Amazon.
(19) While it does not specifically mention women or domestic violence, Article 26 bars a broad swath of “relatives” from acting as witnesses, which presents a problem in a country where women are often cloistered at home and the bulk of violence committed against them is either by or in front of family members.
(20) As Haffner puts it: “The challenge was to let it exist and not exist at the same time.” A screen of 495 wooden posts marches around the outside of the building, marking the number of survivors of the attack, and forming a cloistered walkway between the outer and inner facade where 69 structural columns symbolise the number who died here.
Colonnade
Definition:
(n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets used to be lined with covered colonnades, providing shade from the sun and protection from monsoon rains, but they, too, were torn down.
(2) In 1506, Pope Julius had the old, rectilinear St Peter’s pulled down and a new one built that would be all curves, with its famous colonnade embracing the round world.
(3) At first, he refused to speak, preferring to communicate by eye contact alone You’d glimpse him around the Hotel de Paris: a shadow flitting between the marble colonnades.
(4) Kasrils and old comrades who fear that the ANC's elite are losing their working-class credentials will have found little consolation last week when Ramaphosa addressed the media in an Edwardian-era mansion framed by Tuscan colonnades and Palladian windows, built to entertain the mining Randlords of Johannesburg.
(5) The city’s sprawling colonnades and Tetrapylon remain , while Isis has repurposed its amphitheatre, using it to stage mass executions of its enemies.
(6) The house itself is a grand 1850s colonnaded mansion, where guests can enjoy a private plunge pool and a tropical garden for undisturbed sunbathing.
(7) It has a colonnaded porch and neatly trimmed topiary, but several aspects of the house are definitely in breach of the Celebration pattern book.
(8) Another is the arch of triumph on Palmyra’s ancient colonnades, or the Roman amphitheatre that dates back to the second century AD.
(9) The lawyers of Yangon could have done with a little divine intervention in their recent battle against the privatisation of the former high court and police commissioner’s office, a grand classical edifice whose ionic colonnade marches around an entire city block facing the waterfront on Strand Road.
(10) The plain red-brick building is in the shadow of the state capitol, a grand colonnaded white house at the top end of the broad avenue.
(11) The National Gallery’s colonnaded splendour radiates across Trafalgar Square a sense of the importance of art in Britain’s national life.
(12) He expected further destruction in the coming weeks, including the agora or meeting place, colonnades and burial grounds.
(13) 1 Bellevue Road, +27 21 434 1929, sweetestguesthouses.com Cascades on the Promenade Facebook Twitter Pinterest While Sweet Lemon is up the hill, this colonnaded boutique hotel is almost on Sea Point’s promenade, and you can see the ocean from several of the room terraces.
(14) One image shows a colonnaded porch filled with blood-stained blankets, clothes and mattresses.
(15) They smoke on the phone and in the rain, in doorways and under colonnades.
(16) Hundreds of mattresses have been laid out on the floor in the City Hall's main colonnaded room, and different stalls hand out food, medicines and donated warm clothes to those who want them.
(17) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
(18) I drove up a steep private drive, which curved around to an open lawn and a white colonnaded house.
(19) Former inmates told us that they thought they were hallucinating when they saw a colonnade of seven dwarves dressed warmly and elegantly, as if for a Shabbat stroll.
(20) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).