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Cloistered

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Cloistered meaning

Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary. | Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence. | Naive, lacking in worldliness.

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It’s about women’s rights and it’s set in a cloistered society – so cloistered that it’s almost surreal.

There were retired emperors, including cloistered emperors, both before and after the Heian period, but the notion of cloistered rule as a system usually refers to the practice put in place by Emperor Shirakawa in 1086 Ponsonby-Fane, Richard.

She’s moved from cloistered cringe to lesbian liberation.

The 10 Carmelite nuns of Cypress Hills, cloistered in Brooklyn for almost 20 years, decided to leave New York City after much contemplation.

In the hours and days after the debate, she kept her husband cloistered away from anyone who might convince him to drop out," the tweet read further.

Cloistered in my home, I surfed the web.

Many students will also miss the chance to spend a couple of months in the real world, away from the cloistered environment of a college campus.

Musically, Sciamma keeps things sparse and diegetic, mirroring Héloïse’s cloistered experience (she longs to hear an orchestra), emphasising her silenced sense of imprisonment.

They have since spent their time cloistered in a motel north of St Etienne, first in isolation before returning to full training at the start of the week.

Washington Post book critic Ron Charles offers suggestions for these challenging, cloistered times.

After three months cloistered in my basement dungeon, my bedroom started to look like a much more appealing option, despite all the warnings that it would ruin the serenity of my sleeping space.

Nor was such emotional turmoil confined to decades long ago, or a student coming to Cambridge from a relatively cloistered girlhood.

Originally built in 1911 to serve the local German- and English-speaking Catholic communities, it is now primarily home to the cloistered Poor Sisters of St. Clare, who live in the adjoining former rectory.

The site’s senior managers, who employees say are normally cloistered in their offices, made a show of walking the production floor and chatting with their subordinates.

The survey, released in February, also found that people who live and work in cloistered settings, such as group homes, are more isolated socially and have far fewer interactions with the community than other Minnesotans.

In her short cloistered life, she suffered physically from tuberculous as well as emotionally due to the jealousy of some of the other sisters in the convent.

The trio, along with medical personnel that included a psychiatrist, were cloistered in the middle of Pompeo's plane in a small section of 12 business class-size seats cordoned off by curtains on both ends.

Although he did not have time to exert power after his abdication, Sanjō had weakened the regency and paved the way for the practice of cloistered rule.

Another group of cloistered "Nuns of St Ambrose", also called the Annunciatae (Italian: Annunziate) of Lombardy or "Sisters of St Marcellina", were founded in 1408 by three young women of Pavia, Dorothea Morosini, Eleonora Contarini, and Veronica Duodi.

Cloistered emperors also had their own troops, the Hokumen no Bushi (北面の武士).