Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a rose, especially in color; roseate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete resembling a rose in smell or color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Resembling a
rose in scent or colour.
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Examples
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With you the roseal lightnings burning 'mid their hair;
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology Various
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Shine through the roseal gates of the Orient bright,
The Fourth Book. VII. Wherein Is Prosecuted the History of the Curious-Impertinent 1909
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But, alas! it was only love of vague forms; of tints roseal and azure; of metaphysical phantoms.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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The Countesse hearinge those wordes began to recoloure her bleake and pale face with a vermilion teinte and roseal rudde, and accomplished with incredible delight and ioye, falling downe at his feete, said vnto him “My Lord, for asmuch as I neuer loked to be aduaunced to so honourable state as fortune nowe doth offer, for merite of a benefit so high and great which you present vnto me, vouchsauing to abase your selfe to the espousal of so poore a Lady, your maiesties pleasure being such, behold me ready at your commaundement.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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