conventual

adj

1. Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.

   “During this time, sister Ursula, to give her for the last time her conventual name, exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.”

   “The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.”

   “The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.”

   “The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.”

noun

1. A member of a convent.
2. A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.