(n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
(n.) An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The locality, which is situated at the foot of the Chartreuse massif, receives its water solely from springs but there is a holiday camp for the staff of an international airline situated above the main water catchment.
(2) Another fantastic place is the Vintage Cocktail Club (15 Crown Alley) where High Tea means a concoction involving marmalade vodka and green chartreuse.
Vermilion
Definition:
(n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
(n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
(v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(2) We feel that the myomucosal advancement flap is a valuable technique to overcome some of the problems in reconstruction of the vermilion after lip-shave.
(3) This article describes a one-stage technique to reconstruct up to one-third of the vermilion after full-thickness excision of the lips.
(4) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(5) Following removal of the hemangioma, the excessive mucosa-vermilion flap is reduced to form an accurate upper lip shape.
(6) The procedure consists in the excision of the vermilion epithelium with immediate repair of the lip by advancement of a flap of labial mucosa.
(7) A method is described to correct major vermilion defects by using a transverse, cross-lip, vermilion flap.
(8) Vermilion border and skin specimens of cattle, rats and humans were processed under standardized conditions for light microscopic observation.
(9) Two keratin-filled pseudocysts which developed in the excretory ducts of sebaceous glands in the vermilion border of the lower lip in an 86-year-old woman are described.
(10) Using discriminant analysis and controlling for race, the FAS face was characterized by landmark measurements which correspond to short palpebral fissure, scooping out of the nasal bridge and thin vermilion [F(4,71)-7.8, r sq-30%, p < .01].
(11) A bilateral tissue expanding flap is described for the reconstruction of the mid-vermilion border.
(12) Defects of the lips must be closed with exact alignment of the vermilion-cutaneous margins.
(13) Both girls had numerous telangiectases distributed over the upper limbs, trunk, face, and vermilion border of the lips.
(14) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(15) The studies also revealed the lip elevator muscles and the "fold muscles" coursing down the lip to traverse the orbicularis oris and insert into the dermis of the upper lip, the cutaneous vermilion junction, and vermilion.
(16) This method consists of forming two equilaterally triangular mucosal flaps on the vermilion and a small triangular skin flap in the new position of the commissure and transposing these three flaps to reconstruct the commissure.
(17) A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow.
(18) The pedicle is cut all around the vermilion leaving only a muscle cuff with the nutrient labial vessels.
(19) The combination of mucosal advancement flaps plus split vermilion grafts and full-thickness preauricular skin grafts are used and illustrated in two patients.
(20) This procedure is applicable only when adequate vermilion is available.