Cloistral [adjective]

And from a thick maple on the edge of a clearing a hermit-thrush fluted slowly over and over his cloistral ecstasy.

But the rule was moral and academical, not cloistral or ascetic.

Their resolutions contemplated the abolition of secret masses, cloistral confinement, and other antiscriptural customs.

The iron grip has held cloistral Noyon that was only too content to be forgotten in its distinguished retirement.

They are like a jeweled cloistral screen around the Holy of Holies.

He popularized the cloistral æstheticism of Pater and the cultural egoism of Goethe in Intentions and elsewhere.

Only the creepers and the great pileated woodpeckers seemed to inhabit these truly cloistral shades.

It is probably the seclusion, the cloistral repose, of the Quarter that attracts the student and the scholar.

In their busy and half cloistral life the smallest events have the interest which a prisoner feels in those of his prison.

Suddenly she was startled to find that appalling temptations found even Catherine out even in her cloistral solitude.