Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the court inclosed by a cloister.
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Examples
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The next bay contains traces of a doorway into the cloister-garth that has been blocked.
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Viewed from the north-west corner of the cloister-garth, the pile is seen perhaps at its best.
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The cloister was originally continued parallel with this wall to the extremity of the nave, whence it extended in the usual quadrangular form, each side consisting of eight bays, enclosing the area known as the cloister-garth.
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It may here be mentioned that a close examination of the ground has shown that there was formerly the usual "slype," or open pathway, running from the cloister-garth, between the south transept and the Chapter House, to the canons 'cemetery on the southern side of the Lady Chapel.
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The cats were sitting in the shady cloister-garth licking their whiskers: one was actually cleaning his paw.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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North of the nave is the cloister-garth; to the north and east of the cloisters are the refectory and chapter-house; the building over the chapter-house was the library, which was large and valuable.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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And on the Prior's breast they placed the golden rose, and under the great red hawthorn in the midst of the cloister-garth they laid him, O Lord, beneath the earth which is Thy footstool.
A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909
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Bertram waves his arms over the cloister-garth, and there, too, the tombs gape apart, and more shadowy spectres emerge.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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The curtain goes up on the dim cloisters of the convent, the cloister-garth, visible through the Gothic arches of the arcade, bathed in bright moonlight beyond.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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The cats were sitting in the shady cloister-garth licking their whiskers: one was actually cleaning his paw.
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892
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