chartreuse
chartreuse Lexical Profile
chartreuse Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Having a vivid, pale yellowish-green color.
"The fashion designer paired a bold chartreuse blouse with charcoal-gray trousers for the spring collection."
• noun
A vivid, pale yellowish-green color resembling the hue of green Chartreuse liqueur.
"The newly sprouted spring leaves added bright splashes of chartreuse to the forest canopy."
A pungent, aromatic green or yellow herbal liqueur distilled by Carthusian monks in France from brandy and a secret blend of 130 herbs, plants, and flowers.
"After dinner, the bartender served a classic cocktail made with gin, lime juice, maraschino liqueur, and green Chartreuse."
A monastery of the Carthusian religious order, especially La Grande Chartreuse in southeastern France.
"The travelers hiked through the alpine valley to view the historic chartreuse nestled among the limestone peaks."
Word Nuance & Usage
Because of its French sound and association with wine regions, 'chartreuse' is frequently misperceived as a shade of purplish-red or burgundy, when it actually denotes a vivid yellowish-green.
• Rhymes for chartreuse
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French 'Chartreuse', the name of La Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusian religious order near Grenoble, France, where monks have distilled the herbal liqueur since the 18th century; the color sense was adopted in the late 19th century from the pale yellowish-green hue of the drink.