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Oct 16, 2008
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Cloister

He retired into a cloister, a monastery. Almost all monasteries have a cloister or covered walk, which generally occupied three sides of a quadrangle.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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