cloistre

Noun

cloistre (plural cloistres)

1. Obsolete form of cloister.

Anagrams

• cloister, coistrel, cortiles, costlier, creolist

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 […]

Alternative forms

• cloister, closter, cloystre, cloyster, clostre, cloistir, cleystir, cloysture

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. (figuratively, rare) The uterus as a a protective location.

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.

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. cloister
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, De l'Estat du Monde:

     L'en ne preesche més en cloistre