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Char·treuse

 (shär-tro͞oz′, -tro͞os′, -trœz′)
A trademark for a usually yellow or green liqueur.

char·treuse

 (shär-tro͞oz′, -tro͞os′, -trœz′)
n.
A strong to brilliant greenish yellow to moderate or strong yellow green.

[After Chartreuse.]

char·treuse′ adj.
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chartreuse

(ʃɑːˈtrɜːz; French ʃartrøz)
n
1. (Brewing) either of two liqueurs, green or yellow, made from herbs and flowers
2. (Colours)
a. a colour varying from a clear yellowish-green to a strong greenish-yellow
b. (as adjective): a chartreuse dress.
[C19: from French, after La Grande Chartreuse, monastery near Grenoble, where the liqueur is produced]
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Char•treuse

(ʃɑrˈtruz, -ˈtrus)
Trademark.
1. an aromatic yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks.
n.
2. (l.c.) a clear light green with a yellowish tinge.
[1865–70; < French, after La Grande Chartreuse, Carthusian monastery near Grenoble]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Chartreuse - aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France
cordial, liqueur - strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal
hyssop oil - used chiefly in liqueurs
2.Chartreuse - a shade of green tinged with yellowchartreuse - a shade of green tinged with yellow
green, viridity, greenness - green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
Adj.1.chartreuse - of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur
chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue
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References in classic literature ?
"Will you take fin champagne, Prince, or Chartreuse? I recommend the fin champagne."
On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some considerable length.
This officer, whose acquired practical wisdom did not allow him to make any journey in vain, had just come from Grenoble, and was on his way to the Grande Chartreuse, after obtaining on the previous evening a week's leave of absence from his colonel.
His flight from the active world, so genially celebrated in this newly published poem of The Recluse; his flight to the Vale of Grasmere, like that of some pious youth to the Chartreuse, is the most marked event of his existence.
I expected to have a guide named Henri de Montmorency, or Armand de la Chartreuse, or something that would sound grand in letters to the villagers at home, but to think of a Frenchman by the name of Billfinger!
One journey he describes as 'very troublesome,' adding: 'You can't imagine how I am pleased with the sight of a plain.' In the mountains he is conscious chiefly of difficulty and danger, and the nearest approach to admiration which he indicates is 'an agreeable kind of horror.' Gray, on the other hand, speaks of the Grande Chartreuse as 'one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes....
We pored together over such works as the Ververt et Chartreuse of Gresset; the Belphegor of Machiavelli; the Heaven and Hell of Swedenborg; the Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm by Holberg; the Chiromancy of Robert Flud, of Jean D'Indagine, and of De la Chambre; the Journey into the Blue Distance of Tieck; and the City of the Sun by Campanella.
Yellow Chartreuse Dash of Regan's orange bitters Dash of Angostura bitters Combine ingredients in glass with ice.
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Everyone has a different name for the chartreuse cottage at the heart of the garden.