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▪ I. † closter Obs. Also -tre, -tyr(e. [ad. L. clōstrum, var. of claustrum, whence OHG. klôster, Ger. kloster, MDu. clooster, Du. klooster in same sense.] A cloister, monastic cell, or monastery.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 80 A closter þei bigan. Ibid. 172 Better him wer..in clostre haf led his life. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670/6 Hoc claustrum, clostyre. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (1852) 98 The swerde was willed to be borne downe in the closter. b. Comb.
1536–40Pilgr. Tale 182 in Thynne's Animadv., He loked not as he were closter-pent. ▪ II. closter, -tre obs. ff. cluster. |