Carthusian
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Carthusian
1520–30; < Medieval Latin Cartusiānus, by metathesis from Catursiānus, after Catursiānī ( montēs ) district in Dauphiné where the order was founded
Example Sentences
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This grass-colored liqueur, with its bracing, vegetal taste and mulish kick, called Chartreuse after the Carthusian brothers of your order, is the closest thing you’ll ever experience to a magic potion.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022
The famed Polish composer and his French lover, a novelist known by her male pen name, spent the winter of 1838 at this former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
An odd five-page digression follows, in which the narrator imagines the human brain as a Carthusian monastery, with monks in charge of preserving memories.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018
While Carthusian monks take vows of secrecy to protect their recipes, it seems unlikely that they also take vows of poverty.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2013
He sold it again to his uncle, Pope Pius IV., who founded the monastery of Carthusian monks.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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