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Word entry · 10 letters

chartreuse

Best crossword clue

"Yellow-green color"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ʃɑːˈtɹɜːz/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aceehrrstuStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2H3A4R5T6R7E8U9S10E

Definitions

  1. Yellowish green color.

Word origin

Borrowed from French chartreuse. Doublet of charterhouse.

Used in a sentence

  • Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.
  • Well, we shot the line and we went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus In a chartreuse microbus.
  • Every scrap of vegetation had been scorched from the parched soil, except for growths of black, orange, and chartreuse lichen that, from the air, gave the earth a scabbed and infected appearance.

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