carthusian

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The pinks were Jove's own flowers, and the carthusian pink, china pink, clove pink, snow pink, plumed pink, mullein pink, sweet william, maltese cross, ragged robin, catch-fly, and campion, all made gay and sweet the summer.

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  1. A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.
  2. Pertaining to the Carthusian.

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  1. a member of the Carthusian order
  2. of or relating to the Carthusian order

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  • Rogier and Elisabeth had four children: Cornelius who became a carthusian monk was born in 1427, a daughter Margaretha in
  • The pinks were Jove's own flowers, and the carthusian pink, china pink, clove pink, snow pink, plumed pink, mullein pink, sweet william, maltese cross, ragged robin, catch-fly, and campion, all made gay and sweet the summer. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
 

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