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CARTHUSIANS

\kɑːθjˈuːzɪənz], \kɑːθjˈuːzɪənz], \k_ɑː_θ_j_ˈuː_z_ɪ__ə_n_z]\

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1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases

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A Carthusian, one educated at Charterhouse.
A very rigid monastic order, founded a.d. 1086, by St. Bruno, at Chartreuse, near Grenoble; one of their houses being Charterhouse, in London, a corr. of Chartreuse.

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith

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