CHARTREUSE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | shâr'trooz
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- [n] a shade of green tinged with yellow
- [n] aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint; made at monastery near Grenoble France
- [adj] having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur
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| | Synonyms: | | chromatic, Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
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| | See Also: | | cordial, green, greenness, hyssop oil, liqueur, viridity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Char`treuse"\, n. [F.]
1. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother
house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble,
France.
2. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; --
made at La Grande Chartreuse.
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| | Related Terms: | | aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, smaragdine, springlike, summerlike, summery, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green |
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