chartreuse

See also: Chartreuse

English

Borrowed from French chartreuse. Doublet of charterhouse.

chartreuse (countable and uncountable, plural chartreuses)

A yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks.
- 1921, Booth Tarkington, Harlequin and Columbine‎:
  Old Tinker, in evening dress, sat uncomfortably, sideways, upon the edge of a wicker and brocade “chaise lounge,” finishing a tiny glass of chartreuse, while Talbot Potter, in the middle of the room, took leave of a second guest who had been dining with him.
A greenish-yellow color.
- 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
  Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
  With a thousand screamin' trucks
  An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
  In a chartreuse microbus.
chartreuse (HTML):

bright chartreuse (Pantone):
(art) A kind of enamelled pottery.
(cooking) A French dish of vegetables (and sometimes meat) wrapped tightly in a decorative layer of salad or vegetable leaves and cooked in a dome-shaped mould.
- 1977, Joseph Dommers Vehling Apicius, Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, page 238:
  ARRANGE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COOKED VEGETABLES IN A CASSEROLE […] The dish resembles a chartreuse.

chartreuse (not comparable)

of a bright yellowish-green colour

From the Chartreux (“Carthusian monks”).

chartreuse f (plural chartreuses)

chartreuse