charterhouse

noun

char·​ter·​house

: a Carthusian monastery

Word History

Etymology

by folk etymology from Middle French chartrouse, from Old French, from Chartreuse, Chartrouse (now Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse), locality near Grenoble, France, the site of the first Carthusian monastery

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