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1. a bright yellowish green color: "She fell in love with a little scraggly kitten with chartreuse eyes."
adjective form: chartreuse
Origin:
Approximately 1884; from French, after a liqueur produced at the monastery of the Carthusian order. The original recipe now being marketed as Les Peres Chartreux. The color is so called from resemblance to the pale apple-green hue of the liqueur. In action:
"'To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.' -- Michel de Montaigne
Death is too important to be left to the end of life. Better to face death now while you can still enjoy what it has to offer. Fortunately, there are several ways to do this, and there's a special outfit for each encounter. In jeans, chartreuse windbreaker and parachute, you can dangle your legs out the doorway of an old prop plane and push yourself into oblivion. In fatigues and helmet, you can endure the daily routine of terror and courage until death is an easy friend. Sitting silently in a loose-fitting black meditation robe, you can follow your inner corpse to its ultimate ego-annihilating epiphany."
Brother Void. "Learning to die," Salon.com (October 25, 2002).
"For most people, Christmas decor is and always will be about red and green, nutcrackers and Santas, pine garlands and wreaths. But new trends and ideas show up every year, for those who embrace a little novelty (think black or upside down Christmas trees, rather popular in some quarters last year).
This season, look for variations on the traditional color themes: nature-inspired browns, coppers and golds, metallics, lively greens of chartreuse and avocado, and deep berry reds and burgundies.
Alternatively, the icy wintry theme is bigger than ever, glowing with glitter, crystal and mercury glass, white trees and silvery ornaments."
Carol Polsky. "Holiday decorating departs from traditional," Newsday (November 28, 2007).
"Peering floorward through a glass-bottom boat at Silver Springs, I did see the occasional chartreuse scarf of algae waft across the frame, and the undulant eelgrass on the riverbed is visibly clotted, but the algae hardly diminished the pleasure of the trip. The springs are so stunningly crystalline that the 20-minute putter along the river was an improbably riveting experience, despite our captain's play-by-play of the decidedly ungripping riverbed quotidiana passing below: 'See that log? That's a cypress log. Very special wood, cypress. Very old log.'"
Wells Tower. "A Little Bit Country in Florida," The New York Times (November 18, 2007).
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