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Definition of Charterhouse
1. Noun. A Carthusian monastery.
Definition of Charterhouse
1. n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Definition of Charterhouse
1. Noun. A Carthusian monastery. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Charterhouse
Literary usage of Charterhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"Archdeacon Hale on the Antiquities of the charterhouse—Course of the Water ...
IN a monograph on the charterhouse, Archdeacon Hale, who held so long the ..."
2. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1896)
"The new and wide charterhouse Street leads hence in a NE direction to Smithfield (p.
124) and charterhouse Square (p. 125), while Hatton Garden (so named ..."
3. Our Public Schools: Their Influence on English History; Charter House, Eton by James George Cotton Minchin (1901)
"THE founder of Eton was a King, the founder of Winchester a prince bishop, and
the founder of charterhouse a merchant prince. Of all school-founders Sir ..."
4. The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & Historical by Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1907)
"The remainder of Baxter's life was spent in charterhouse Square, and here he died
on December 8, 1691, being buried in Christ Church, Newgate Street.1 Pink ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"He settled in charterhouse Square, and never Portraits of Wollaston are at Shenton
and at the master's lodgings at Sidney-Sussex College. ..."
6. Reminiscences Chiefly of Towns, Villages and Schools: Chiefly of Towns by Thomas Mozley (1885)
"charterhouse ON THE BELL SYSTEM. I HAVE frequently been made sensible of a certain
reluctance to allow to charterhouse, as it was in my time, the title of a ..."
7. The history of England from the accession of James ii by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1849)
"The charterhouse. suspended Fairfax from his fellowship: but about Farmer no ...
James had, some time before, commanded the trustees of the charterhouse, ..."
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