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Charterhouse [Fr.,=Chartreuse], in London, England, once a Carthusian monastery (founded 1371), later a hospital for old men and then a school for boys, endowed in 1611. The school, which became a large public school, was removed (1872) to Godalming, Surrey. W. M. Thackeray , a pupil at the school, describes it in The Newcomes.

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Charterhouse. Carthusian monastery, Certosa, or Chartreuse (French).

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charterhouse. The English name for a Carthusian house. The English public school commonly so called was founded on the site of such a house in London.

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