Definitions for Chartreuse

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Chartreuse Char·treuse

Spelling: [shahr-trooz, -troos; French sha

IPA: /ʃɑrˈtruz, -ˈtrus; French ʃarˈtrœz/

Chartreuse is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 719 anagrams from letters in Chartreuse (aceehrrstu).

Definitions for Chartreuse

noun

1. an aromatic liqueur, usually yellow or green, made by the Carthusian monks at Grenoble, France, and, at one time, at Tarragona, Spain.
2. (lowercase) a clear, light green with a yellowish tinge.

adjective

1. (lowercase) of the color chartreuse.

Origin of Chartreuse

1865-70; French, after La Grande Chartreuse, Carthusian monastery near Grenoble, where the liqueur is made

Examples for Chartreuse

"Coffee and Chartreuse," he said to the waiter, when we had finished.

It bulged in the middle, and had a Chartreuse rind with heliotrope spots on it.

Clelia Conti in the Chartreuse is like the conventional heroine of Italian romance.

"It's the Chartreuse that's lacking," commented Caraher, lowering at Annixter.

Chartreuse is the unsolved enigma of French compounders of liqueurs.

And last and chief, the mill in the valley of the Chartreuse.

One of them (the dog, not owner) was two-tone, with a Chartreuse mane and red ears.

The Chartreuse, which is not in the forest, but merely some hundred feet from it.

At last he condescended to serve the brothers two glasses of Chartreuse.

Its population was to be seen nowhere else; it seemed to exist only at the Chartreuse and for the Chartreuse.