- 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...
- 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...
- A
cloistered emperor (太上法皇, daijō hōō, also
pronounced dajō hōō) is the term for a ****anese
emperor who had
abdicated and
entered the
Buddhist monastic...
- 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...
- or garth.
Cloister or
cloisters may also
refer to:
Cloister (****tail), a gin-based ****tail
Cloister (typeface), a
serif typeface Cloister Inn, one of...
- The
cloister is ****tail made from gin,
grapefruit juice,
lemon juice, and chartreuse. The ****tail
includes chartreuse, and has been
cited as a good introduction...
-
Cloistered rule (院政, insei, lit. "monastery administration") was a form of
government in ****an
during the
Heian period. In this
bifurcated system, an emperor...
- 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...
- The
Ephrata Cloister or
Ephrata Community was a
religious community,
established in 1732 by
Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster...
