▪ I. † closter Obs.
Also -tre, -tyr(e.
[ad. L. clōstrum, var. of claustrum, whence OHG. klôster, Ger. kloster, MDu. clooster, Du. klooster in same sense.]
A cloister, monastic cell, or monastery.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 80 A closter þei bigan. Ibid. 172 Better him wer..in clostre haf led his life. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670/6 Hoc claustrum, clostyre. 1556 Chron. Gr. Friars (1852) 98 The swerde was willed to be borne downe in the closter. |
b. Comb.
| 1536–40 Pilgr. Tale 182 in Thynne's Animadv., He loked not as he were closter-pent. |
▪ II. closter, -tre
obs. ff. cluster.