Cloister
[n] a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
[n] residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
[v] seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"
[v] surround with a cloister, as of a garden
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