Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong to brilliant greenish yellow to moderate or strong yellow green.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cookery, a preparation usually of game, fillets, etc., incased in a mold of rice; also, fruits inclosed in blanc-mange or puddings.
- noun A monastery of Carthusian monks, especially in France.
- noun A highly esteemed tonic cordial, obtained by the distillation of various aromatic plants, especially nettles, growing on the Alps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Carthusian monastery; esp.
La Grande Chartreuse , mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France. - noun An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at
La Grande Chartreuse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
yellow orgreen liqueur made byCarthusian monks . - noun A
greenish yellow colour . - adjective of a bright yellowish-green colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur
- noun aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France
- noun a shade of green tinged with yellow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the top 10 feet of the water, chartreuse is hard to beat.
If it ain't chartreuse it ain't no use... What say you fisher guys and gals? 2009
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In the top 10 feet of the water, chartreuse is hard to beat.
If it ain't chartreuse it ain't no use... What say you fisher guys and gals? 2009
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Ilike the marabou-tailed Foxee jigs by Blue Fox, in chartreuse, 1/16 - and1/8-ounce sizes.
Spring Perch Fishing Secrets From Field & Stream's John Merwin 2006
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The ¼-ounce size 4 in chartreuse works well for perch, and even betterwhen one of the hook points is tipped with a fresh perch eyeball (yes, really).
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CHARTRUESE: The color quickly becoming a signature one for Mrs. O is known as chartreuse, which is exactly 50 percent green and 50 percent yellow.
Black America Web 2009
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If they typed in chartreuse sprockets, and that exact text is in bold in the header of your ad, that’s a big selling point, and makes them more likely to click through to your site.
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The leaves were just out, and his father had captured the delicate early green, chartreuse, that is gone in a week.
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"chartreuse" and "none," local marketing exec Kate O'Neill had this status update retort:
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His shoulder-length hair splayed across the collar of his gold and purple cutaway coats, which often framed chartreuse vests and floral-print ties.
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For the last two weeks I have seldom stirred out of bed except for meals, reading-matter, or to visit the toilet and cough up chartreuse slime.
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zaggan commented on the word chartreuse
hey this is the name of my bass clarinet.....kind of weird that i named it though.....oh well.
May 29, 2009