Chartreuse: alternatives and connections

A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzer…

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

Pertaining to the Carthusian.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

A Carthusian.

A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in th…

the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

The mother of one's father or mother.

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to ho…

1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.