Charter house

chärt′ėr-hows, n. a Car thus i an monastery: the famous hospital and school instituted in London in 1611, on the site of a Car thus i an monastery—now transferred—the 'masterpiece of Protestant English charity' in Fuller's phrase.— ns. Char′treuse , a Car thus i an monastery, esp. the original one, the Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble in France: a famous liqueur, green, yellow, or white, long manufactured here by the monks from aromatic herbs and brandy: a kind of enamelled pottery: a pale greenish colour; Char′treux , a Car thus i an: the Charter house School.