cloistered
adjective
[ ˈklɔɪstəd ]
• enclosed by or having a cloister.
• "a cloistered walkway"
• kept away from the outside world; sheltered.
• "a cloistered upbringing"
Similar:
secluded,
sheltered,
sequestered,
shielded,
protected,
shut-off,
isolated,
withdrawn,
confined,
restricted,
insulated,
reclusive,
retiring,
unworldly,
solitary,
monastic,
hermitic,
hermit-like,
eremitic,
anchoritic,
cloistral,
cloister
verb
• seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
• "the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’.
