While traditionally geisha have led a cloistered existence, in recent years they have become more publicly visible, and entertainment is available without requiring the traditional introduction and connections.

I have bought three copies of it during my lifetime; and I am informed by the publishers that its cloistered existence is still a steady and healthy one.

For eleven months, brmiq led a cloistered existence.

Shocking her family, she leaves the convent and her cloistered existence behind and sets out in search of a new life.

From his cloistered existence in the holy city of Najaf, he has told the Shiites that they must hang together at all costs.

When I asked a man near me about it, he explained that they were Carmelites, members of an order that lived a cloistered existence completely apart from society.

"It's a cloistered, narrow existence that I'm not proud of," says Parcells.

But those famous lions have cousins in town who lead - literally - a more cloistered existence, and they will share the spotlight tomorrow.

Their cloistered existence confined to the isolation of their own 'havelies' and mansions.

Often, Merton offered priestly advice or expounded on social and political issues - the Vietnam War and racism, for example - despite his cloistered existence.