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Charterhouse definition

Charter·house (c̸härt′ər ho̵us′)

noun

  1. a boys' school in Surrey, England, moved from its orig. location in London that was on the site of a Carthusian monastery
  2. Archaic a Carthusian monastery

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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