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Synonyms for chartreuse

Grammar : Adj
Spell : shahr-trooz, -troos; French shar-trœz
Phonetic Transcription : ʃɑrˈtruz, -ˈtrus; French ʃarˈtrœz

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Définition of chartreuse

Origin :
  • type of liqueur, 1866, from la Grande-Chartreuse, chief monastery of the Carthusian order, which was founded 11c. and named for the massif de la Chartreuse (Medieval Latin Carthusianus) mountain group in the French Alps, where its first monastery was built. The liqueur recipe dates from early 17c.; the original now marketed as Les Pères Chartreux. The color (1884) is so called from resemblance to the pale apple-green hue of the best type of the liqueur.
  • As in green : adj emerald in color
Example sentences :
  • At last he condescended to serve the brothers two glasses of Chartreuse.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • "Coffee and chartreuse," he said to the waiter, when we had finished.
  • Extract from : « Dross » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • Chartreuse is the unsolved enigma of French compounders of liqueurs.
  • Extract from : « A Journey Through France in War Time » by Joseph G. Butler, Jr.
  • "It's the chartreuse that's lacking," commented Caraher, lowering at Annixter.
  • Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
  • It bulged in the middle, and had a chartreuse rind with heliotrope spots on it.
  • Extract from : « Cum Grano Salis » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Its population was to be seen nowhere else; it seemed to exist only at the Chartreuse and for the Chartreuse.
  • Extract from : « Vie de Bohme » by Orlo Williams
  • And last and chief, the mill in the valley of the Chartreuse.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) » by John Ruskin
  • Clelia Conti in the Chartreuse is like the conventional heroine of Italian romance.
  • Extract from : « Egoists » by James Huneker
  • The Chartreuse, which is not in the forest, but merely some hundred feet from it.
  • Extract from : « The Companions of Jehu » by Alexandre Dumas, pre
  • From there we went to the Correrie; it was the supplement of the Chartreuse.
  • Extract from : « The Companions of Jehu » by Alexandre Dumas, pre

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