Located or occurring outside a cloister, monastery, or convent.
From Latin 'extra' (outside) + 'claustrum' (enclosed space, from 'claudere' meaning to close). Medieval monastic term distinguishing monastic from secular spaces.
Monks and nuns lived in enclosed cloisters separated from the world—extraclaustral meant the dangerous, tempting secular world beyond those protective monastery walls.
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