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Recent Examples of cloister
The church of St Francis is also worth visiting for the peaceful cloister with graceful Gothic arches and creeping greenery.
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Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
With stone walls, vaulted ceilings, and Renaissance cloister, Parador is a prime example of Gothic architecture.
—Carlsen Jes, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
—Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
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Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
With stone walls, vaulted ceilings, and Renaissance cloister, Parador is a prime example of Gothic architecture.
—Carlsen Jes, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
—Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloister
Noun
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Jeff Bezos was set to celebrate his lavish wedding to Lauren Sánchez at the Fondazione Cini, a cultural institution on the island which occupies a large part of a Benedictine monastery established there in 982 A.D.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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But other outlets, including CNN and The Hollywood Reporter, report that the couple may get married on the private island of San Giorgio Maggiore, specifically in a monastery there.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
23 June 2025
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The caverns were later incorporated into a 13th-century Benedictine abbey, destroyed during the French Revolution but still visible in the architecture of the lower levels.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The nuns of the abbey, for instance, were drawn from the richest and most powerful families in the city.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
29 May 2025
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“Cloister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloister. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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