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...

or garth. Cloister or cloisters may also refer to: Cloister (cocktail), a gin-based cocktail Cloister (typeface), a serif typeface Cloister Inn, one of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In architecture, a cloister vault (also called a pavilion vault) is a vault with four convex surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a point above the...

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...

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...

Oaks Cloister is a historic mansion in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. It was built in 1900 by the architect Joseph Miller Huston (1866-1940)....

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...

is a two-storied guest-house, entered from a cloister (C). The inner court is surrounded by a cloister (EE) from which one enters the monks' cells (II)...

Cloister Mountains is a mountain range in Alberta, Canada. Cloister Mountains were so named on account of the shape of their outline. "Mount Stewart"...

Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock, known in the original French as Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise (1683), is a work of...

text related to this article: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published...

The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster...

Cloister Inn is one of the undergraduate eating clubs at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1912, Cloister occupies...

Story of a Cloistered Nun (Italian: Storia di una monaca di clausura, released as Unholy Convent and Diary of a Cloistered Nun) is a 1973 nunsploitation...

following: the first parchment consisted of the drawing of the abbey church and cloister; the second and third parchments were added to the bottom and right side...

History of Civilizations of Central Asia (PDF). Unesco. p. 397, Fig.9. Buddhistic cloister of Ajina-Tepa - UNESCO World Heritage Centre Accessed 2009-3-3....

The Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan were designed by Bramante in 1497. From October 1930 these cloisters are headquarters of Università Cattolica del...

The Cloisters Apocalypse, MS 68.174 is a French illuminated manuscript dated c. 1330. The text is the Book of Revelation, thought in the Middle Ages to...

The Winchester College War Cloister is a war memorial at Winchester College, in Hampshire, designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker. The roofed quadrangle...

dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer and labor, or a canoness regular, who...

separate themselves from the affairs of the external world. The term cloistered is synonymous with enclosed. In the Catholic Church, enclosure is regulated...

The Cloister of Martins (‹See Tfd›German: Die Martinsklause) is a 1951 West German drama film directed by Richard Häussler and starring Willy Rösner, Gisela...

Beer (‹See Tfd›German: Bier pronounced [biːɐ̯] ) is a major part of German culture. Only water, hops, yeast and malt are permitted[who?] as ingredients...

centuries, with the principal work done in the fourteenth century. The cloister, which encloses the Well of the Geese (Font de les Oques), was completed...

and 1950. The church houses a Reformation museum in the cloister. The annex to the cloister houses the theological school of the University of Zurich...

Mexico City, that was destroyed to give more space to future buildings. The cloister is all that is left of a monastery complex built in the late 16th and early...