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Recent Examples of cloister
The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 25 Nov. 2024
Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
The cloister lies just below the Hohensalzburg Palace which towers over Salzburg.
—Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 25 Nov. 2024
Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
The cloister lies just below the Hohensalzburg Palace which towers over Salzburg.
—Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloister
Noun
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The monastery coincidentally served as a French abbey’s outpost amid increasing tensions between France and England in the years leading up to the Hundred Years’ War.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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Nestled in the mountains, this beautiful monastery is an architectural treasure.—
Carlsen Jes,
Travel + Leisure,
1 June 2025
Noun
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Since then, he’s injected his flair into Venetian jewels like Abbazia San Gregorio, a former Benedictine abbey and the home of Diane von Furstenburg in Palazzo Brandolini-Giustinian.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025
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Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.—
Catherine Musemeche,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Cloister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloister. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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