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Carthusian /kär-thūˈzi-ən or -thooˈ/ noun- A monk or (since 1229) a nun of an order founded by St Bruno in 1084, noted for its strictness
- A scholar of the Charterhouse School, founded on the site of a Carthusian monastery in London, now in Godalming
adjective Of or relating to the order or the school ORIGIN: L Cartusiānus, from Catorissium Chatrousse, a village in Dauphiné, near which their first monastery, La Grande Chartreuse, was founded |