Definition of chartreuse
: a variable color averaging a brilliant yellow green
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Alchemy also will have a small food selection with to-go items and other specialties, including a chartreuse board.
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A guest bedroom is painted chartreuse; an original mantel is now lavender.
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The interface was bland and perplexing: a lanky, spike-haired adolescent appeared to moonwalk over chartreuse flatness divided by a geometrically primitive ribbon of blue (the app's crude semblance of the Mississippi).
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IO moth caterpillars are lime or chartreuse with thin white and burgundy stripes down each side.
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Below the dam: Cotter Trout Dock reports: Trout good on sculpins, crawdad tails, 5-inch stickbaits (greenish-blue backs with light chartreuse bellies are best colors) and red worms.
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For extra-vivid chartreuse foliage, plant it in a spot that gets lots of morning sun.
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These colors, along with dashes of deep burgundy and chartreuse, are repeated throughout the garden to create a harmonious feel.
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Origin and Etymology of chartreuse
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Definition of Chartreuse
—used for a usually green or yellow liqueur
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