Etymology

charterhouse

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Today it means: A Carthusian monastery. Full definition →

French chartreuse
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromchartreuse
  2. English todaycharterhouse

From French chartreuse, reanalysed as a compound of charter + house. Doublet of chartreuse.

Words from the same roots

Frenchchartreuse all →

chartreuse

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