Chartreux

British  

/ ʃɑːˈtrɜː, ʃartrø /

noun

1. a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur

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Example Sentences

The words “Meet the Chartreux: French, Quiet & Cute” floated across the cat’s image.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

In consequence of the Associations Law, the Chartreux monks left France in 1904, and now continue the manufacture of this liqueur in Spain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

The only sweetness of his sad days, his only consolation was his wife: he loses her, and goes to die, at thirty-eight, in that cloister of Chartreux, which his pencil has immortalized.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

His body, which had at first been interred in the convent of the Chartreux, at Paris, was removed hither in 1324; and his descendants obtained permission, in 1475, to erect a mausoleum to his memory.

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Turner, Dawson

Doubtless, too, the recollection of the picture I had seen at the monastery of the Chartreux helped to intensify my unrest.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)