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Grande Chartreuse

Name: Grande Chartreuse
Address: FR

45.3633°N 5.7936°E · Q180709

One English word in this atlas traces back to Grande Chartreuse. It sits in France.

All of France

Pinned here

chartreusenoun · 19th century

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The colour is named after a monastery in the Alps.

Carthusian monks at the Grande Chartreuse have made the liqueur since the 18th century. English borrowed the name for the drink, then for its particular green.

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