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Carthusian

Car·thu·sian [ kaar th'n ] (plural Car·thu·sians)


noun 
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member of austere religious order: a member of a contemplative Roman Catholic order of monks and nuns founded in France in the 11th century

[Mid-16th century. < medieval Latin Carthusianus< Carthusia "Chartreuse," France, where the order's first monastery was built]

Car·thu·sian adjective
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