adjective
                                                of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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                                                adjective
                                                providing privacy or seclusion
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                                                                                                        - the cloistered academic world of books
- sat close together in the sequestered pergola
- sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree
- a secluded romantic spot
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                surround with a cloister, as of a garden
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                                                verb
                                                surround with a cloister
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                                                                                                        - cloister the garden
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
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                                                                                                        - She cloistered herself in the office