cloistre
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Noun edit
cloistre (plural cloistres)
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French edit
Noun edit
cloistre m (plural cloistres)
- Archaic spelling of cloître.
- 1601, Pierre Charron, De la sagesse, praeface:
- […] j’ay respondu que je ne formois icy ou instruisois un homme pour le cloistre, mais pour le monde, la vie commune et civile […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old French cloistre, from Medieval Latin claustrum.
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Noun edit
cloistre
- A monastery or cloister; a place where a monastic lifestyle is practiced.
- A cloister (roofed path, especially at a monastic complex)
- That which is cloistered; a confined location.
- (figurative, rare) The uterus as a protective location.
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References edit
- “cloistre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French cloistre.
Noun edit
cloistre m (plural cloistres)
- cloister
- a. 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
- Metrodorus vivoit du pois de douze onces par jour, Epicurus à moins; Metroclez dormoit en hyver avec les moutons, en esté aux cloistres des Eglises.
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Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”).
Noun edit
cloistre oblique singular, m (oblique plural cloistres, nominative singular cloistres, nominative plural cloistre)
- cloister
- c. 1250, Rutebeuf, De l'Estat du Monde:
- L'en ne preesche més en cloistre
- He no longer preaches in the cloister
Descendants edit
- Middle French: cloistre
- → Middle English: cloistre, cloister, closter, cloystre, cloyster, clostre, cloistir, cleystir, cloysture
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cloistre, supplement)
- “cloître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.