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    A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle...
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  • or garth. Cloister or cloisters may also refer to: Cloister (cocktail), a gin-based cocktail Cloister (typeface), a serif typeface Cloister Inn, one of...
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    The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated...
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  • The cloister is cocktail made from gin, grapefruit juice, lemon juice, and chartreuse. The cocktail includes chartreuse, and has been cited as a good introduction...
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  • Look up cloisters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan dedicated to the art...
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    Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders from around 1913. It is loosely based on...
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    In architecture, a cloister vault (also called a pavilion vault) is a vault with four concave surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a point above...
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    The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is an historical novel by the British author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the travels of a young...
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  • A cloistered emperor (太上法皇, daijō hōō, also pronounced dajō hōō) is the term for a Japanese emperor who had abdicated and entered the Buddhist monastic...
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  • Cloistered rule (院政, insei, lit. "monastery administration") was a form of government in Japan during the Heian period. In this bifurcated system, an emperor...
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