0 separated from and communicating little with the outside world:
1 surrounded by covered passages:
a cloistered courtyard
Today, three weeks before death she held court, cloistered in the bottom wing of her two story f lat, in a house within a house where her world was now.
Never let it be forgotten that our actions affect human beings out there in the real world, beyond our cloistered environment.
However, it should be done by trying to integrate those children into a normal school and not into the cloistered atmosphere of some special school.
They can sink into a closed, sheltered, cloistered life.
We in this country have led a comparatively sequestered and cloistered life.
I have always had the feeling that we may be training our teachers in too cloistered an atmosphere.
The world is not composed of people living saint-like, religious lives, and coming from cloistered seclusion to claim this remedy.
They do not live in a cloistered atmosphere.