| 单词 | Charterhouse |
| 释义 | Charterhouse /chahr"teuhr hows'/, n. , pl. Charterhouses /-how'ziz/. 1. a Carthusian monastery. 2. the hospital and charitable institution founded in London, in 1611, on the site of a Carthusian monastery. 3. the public school into which this hospital was converted. 4. the modern heir of this school, now located in Surrey. [1400-50; late ME < AF chartrouse (taken as CHARTER + HOUSE), after Chatrousse, village in Dauphiné near which the order was founded; see CARTHUSIAN, whence the first r of the AF word] |
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