Etymology

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Today it means: Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister. Full definition →

Latin clōstra
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  1. Latin · derived fromclōstra“lock, enclosure”
  2. English todayclaustration

From Latin clōstra (“lock, enclosure”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.