Charterhouse
[tʃɑ:tәhaus]
Definition
(n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
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Definition
n. a Carthusian monastery: the famous hospital and school instituted in London in 1611 on the site of a Carthusian monastery—now transferred—the 'masterpiece of Protestant English charity' in Fuller's phrase.—ns. Char′treuse a Carthusian monastery esp. the original one the Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble in France: a famous liqueur green yellow or white long manufactured here by the monks from aromatic herbs and brandy: a kind of enamelled pottery: a pale greenish colour; Char′treux a Carthusian: the Charterhouse School.
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