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单词 claustral
释义

claustral

/ˈklɔːstr(ə)l /
adjective
1Relating to a cloister or religious house: claustral buildings...
  • Most frequently it seems it was either the abbot's lodgings or, as at Lacock Abbey, some of the claustral buildings which were adapted.
  • A claustral oblate candidate may be received into the novitiate by the abbot with the consent of the chapter.
  • By the 1930s it was divided into two dwellings and the several tenants of the claustral buildings included firms of printers and mineral water manufacturers.
2 literary Enveloping; confining: this claustral heat...
  • At once claustral and emancipating, these poems announce that the event of life is meaningless without the form we give to it.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin claustralis, from Latin claustrum 'lock, enclosed place' (see cloister).

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