chartreuse

plural chartreuses

1. countableuncountableA yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks.

   Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 138

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   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.

   1921, Booth Tarkington, Harlequin and Columbine

2. countableuncountableA greenish-yellow color.

   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.

   1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall

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   Every scrap of vegetation had been scorched from the parched soil, except for growths of black, orange, and chartreuse lichen that, from the air, gave the earth a scabbed and infected appearance.

   2005, Christopher Paolini, “The Burning Plains”, in Eldest, page 582

3. countableuncountableartA kind of enamelled pottery.
4. countableuncountablecookingA 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.

   ARRANGE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COOKED VEGETABLES IN A CASSEROLE […] The dish resembles a chartreuse.

   1977, Joseph Dommers Vehling Apicius, Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, page 238

1. not comparableOf a bright yellowish-green colour.

1. A female given name from English.