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Yellow or green liqueur
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chartreuse
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Chartreuse as a tertiary color Chartreuse (, or RP ; ) is a color between yellow and green that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse , introduced in 1764. Similarly, chartreuse yellow ...
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a. of a bright yellowish-green colour. n. 1 A yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks. 2 A greenish yellow colour.
Usage examples of chartreuse.
Joe was spit-polished and clean, wearing a chartreuse cowboy shut and new boots, and as they chugged along he took potshots at roadside prairie dogs with his .
She was wearing one of her muumuus, this one olive green, printed with islands, palm trees, and parrots in hot pink and chartreuse.
Douglas Watts wore chartreuse chiffon with a brown velvet jacket, Mrs.
The snow frosted the rocks and sand drifts, and seemed to condense on the surfaces of the chartreuse tractors, camouflaging them into the grainy pale landscape.
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Maraschino, is only, as it were, tweaking the nose of teetotalism.
Her eyes were very big and green, even if they might be a little nearsighted, and Carole wished her own hair was that interesting chartreuse color and thick and straight instead of just plain brown and curly.
Six industrious individuals were on the tennis courts, batting the chartreuse ball back and forth with increasing languor as the heat sapped their strength.
Not, like Feltre, an oily convert, but under the hood, yes, and extracting a chartreuse from his ramble through woods richer far than the philosopher's milk of Mother Nature's bosom.
Eleven-foot monsters with foot-long fangs rose asnarl in yellow and black and vomitous chartreuse, talons clutching, and Shadowspawn shuddered as he muttered "Vaspa!
Fenayrou had three bocks, Lucien one, and Madame another glass of chartreuse.
Fenayrou had three bocks, Lucien one, and Madame another glass of chartreuse.
She tried to insert herself between Brainard and the other woman, but Chartreuse had a surprising amount of muscle in her plump arms.
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Blue flashes of Cerenkov radiation crackled along a sizable segment of the huge chartreuse hemisphere, providing dramatic proof that the colony’.
His face, stained from green chartreuse, cherry brandy and a litre of advocaat, looked like the Bolivian national flag.