The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloisterer
Cloisterer \Clois"ter*er\, n. [Cf. OF. cloistier.] One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
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cloisterer
n. One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
Usage examples of "cloisterer".
No poore cloisterer, nor no novice, But a governor, both wily and wise, And therewithal, of brawnes* and of bones, *sinews A right well-faring person for the nonce.
For there he was not like a cloisterer, With threadbare cope as is the poor scholar, But he was like a lord or like a pope.
No cloisterer or novice can you be: A wily governor you seem to me, And therewithal a man of brawn and bone.
And there he chanced to ask a cloisterer, Privately, after John the carpenter.