Car|thu|sian

Car|thu|sian
Car|thu|sian «kahr THOO zhuhn», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a member of an austere monastic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084.
2. a member of the Charterhouse School in England.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Carthusians.
[< Medieval Latin Cartusianus < Cartusia (now Chatrousse), a village near the first monastery of the order]

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