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Definition of Cloistering
1. cloister [v] - See also: cloister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloistering
Literary usage of Cloistering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs by William Graham Sumner (1906)
"cloistering. The custom of cloistering women has spread, within historic times,
... Later, in the Euphrates Valley, we find the custom of cloistering ..."
2. The Old-fashioned Woman: Primitive Fancies about the Sex by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1913)
"The cloistering of royal widows in convent or mausoleum, and the segregation at home
... Wife-cloistering is always a desideratum in the proprietary family. ..."
3. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1902)
"THE cloistering OF URSULA. By Clinton Scollard. Illustrated. L. 0. Page & Co., 12mo,
$1 50. tion until the end. It is all so gracefully done—Mr. Scollard ..."
4. O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal by Henry O'Shea (1905)
"A notable example of the open corredor^ or cloistering (common in the NW oí Spain),
... Splendid projecting W. portal and external cloistering. ..."
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