claustrum

Definitions

Examples

• It is epitomised in the untranslatable epigram—Claustrum sine armario (est) quasi castrum sine armamentario.

• Historiola, p. 24: "Capitulum quoque et claustrum, dormitorium et refectorium et infirmatorium, nihilominus dificari fecit."

• The door of which I speak is described as "magnum ostium ecclesi sub campanili versus claustrum."

• Claustrum: the structure uniting the wings in flight, whether by hooks, by a thickening of the margin, or by a jugum.

• Claustrum, klaws′trum, n. a thin layer of gray matter in the substance of the hemispheres of the brain:—pl.