Crossword clues for charterhouse
charterhouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charterhouse \Char"ter*house`\, n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
great English public school founded in London in 1611, a folk etymology alteration of chartreux (see chartreuse); it was founded upon the site of a Carthusian monastery.
Wiktionary
n. A Carthusian monastery.
WordNet
n. a Carthusian monastery
Wikipedia
A charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery. The word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French term chartreuse, the first monastery of the order having been established in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains (see List of Carthusian monasteries).
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Usage examples of "charterhouse".
Later in life he shut himself up for four years in the Charterhouse of London, living a life of devotion and prayer, but without taking any vow.
London Charterhouse, in the fond hope that the rest of the brethren might be awed into submission.
In May, 1537, the royal commissioners once more attended at the Charterhouse, when they found the majority of its inmates prepared to take the oath prescribed.
The following month the remnant of the community made their submission, and the London Charterhouse, as a monastic institution, ceased to exist.
From the Charterhouse she removed after a stay of a few days to the Tower, amid the blare of trumpets, the singing of children and the firing of ordnance.
Zhentarim cant echoed in the charterhouse and Zhentarim trade-marks were burned into every piece of wood, including the one Druhallen stared at after the spider disappeared.
In the charterhouse commons where Dru and other travelers took their meals, the Parnasters said that a visiting wizard should walk as far as the brook bridge at least once before he left the village.
If Tiep suspected he was marching toward a cliff, he hid it well throughout dinner and the sunset walk between the charterhouse and their room.
Sheemzher not only knew I was going to take the back way after I left the charterhouse, but that he arranged for those brutes to beat that goblin child.
Priory, but it was not until I had gone through Charterhouse Square and the congerie of narrow streets around Smithfield that eventually I came to a shopping precinct.
If we go by way of Charterhouse and Smithfield, we will be within the city faster than you know.
Hospital, the tract of modern deformity, cleft by a gulf of railway, which spreads between Clerkenwell Road and Charterhouse Street.
He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit.
Lilly reached over to the bedside table, picked up a paperback copy of The Charterhouse of Parma, and started reading.
When we visit the Charterhouse School, and see the old forms where the boys sat nearly a century ago, we have in our minds Colonel Newcome as really as we have Charles Lamb and Coleridge and De Quincey.