Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The color of a rose; specifically, a deep and vivid pink, a color common in roses. See
rose , adjective - noun Hence Beauty or attractiveness, as of a rose; often, fancied beauty or attractiveness; couleur de rose: as, life appears to the young all rose-color.
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Examples
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Pot-aux-Roses, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its sign-board, a post (poteau) painted rose-color.
Les Miserables 2008
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Sometimes these sharp-pointed peaks, these mighty masses of rock, and airy caverns were lighted up one by one, according to the direction of the sun or the caprices of the atmosphere; they caught gleams of gold, dyed themselves in purple; took a tint of glowing rose-color, or turned dull and gray.
The Magic Skin 2007
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Of flowery bloom, the carnation seems a mixture of white and rose-color.
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She could still wear rose-color, and her hair hanging loose upon her shoulders.
Two Poets 2007
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She could still wear rose-color, and her hair hanging loose upon her shoulders.
Two Poets 2007
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Her face, delicate as ever, had lost the rose-color which once gave it so rich a glow.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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The shades of rose-color, crimson, or those beautiful modern combinations of velvet and brocade which suit so many matronly women, are all appropriate silver-wedding dresses.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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In a large arm-chair covered in red reclines a very young girl, whose dress, of a light rose-color, is nearly of the same tint as her own delicate complexion, while the red carpet at her feet, the carnations and red geraniums upon the table, all thrown out boldly upon a background of intense blue, produce a strange but wonderfully harmonious effect of color.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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We thus find that there is a deep truth in utilitarianism, after all -- the rose-color romancings of chameleon writers.
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The two senior maids had stipulated for a preponderance of warm rose-color in the costumes, which suited every one.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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