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cloistre (1155)
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cloistre (1155)

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claustre;  clostre,  cloustre;  sclostre  
  FEW:  claustrum 2/i,752b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  cloistre 9,113b TL: cloistre 2,497 DEAF:  cloistre  DMF:  cloître  TLF:  cloître  OED:  cloister n.  MED:  cloistre n.  DMLBS:  claustrum 355c

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archit.monasticcloister, monastery: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  li reis ne saveit guaires, Ki esteit en cloistre nurriz  Brut WACE 6547
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  De plum la iglise ben covre. Clostre i fait, chapitre a frund  S Edw paris ANTS 2308
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  en le nefe de l’eglise et en le cloistre  Anon Chr1 95.28
( 1415-16 ) Item a dit Wauter de paver [...] le cloistre paramount et abas ové le entré vers le posterne ové large pament de .iiij. a le verge  Mch Tayl Accs2 283 (3 Henry V)
♦monasticeccl.monastic precinct: 
( c.1350; MS: c.1350 )  Cloystre apellons l’eglise, dortour, refectour, chapitle et lour clos deyns lé qeux aylont  A-N Rules 98

See also:

encloistre  escloistre 
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