cloister garth

noun

1. garth ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of cloister garth¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Before the cathedral is the pretty cloister garth, with the chapel of St Anne, erected in 1321 and restored in 1888.

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He died at Bournemouth on the 15th of December 1885, and was buried in the cloister garth of Chester.

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The cloister garth, with its sixty white marble columns, charmed and impressed me; but all molto triste.

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In the cloister garth are two graves perhaps as well worth visiting as ever Becket's was, though no miracles have yet occurred at them.

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May we not yet hope that this spot will be spared the fate of the cloister garth?

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