rosé

[roh-zey] /roʊˈzeɪ/
noun
1.
a pink table wine in which the pale color is produced by removing the grape skins from the must before fermentation is completed.
Origin
1425-75; < French: literally, pink
Examples from the web for rosé
  • Colors range from cranberry maroon through purple and rose to orchid pink, often in same blossom.
  • Large semidouble flowers of rose pink shading to rose red at petal edges.
  • All kinds have attractive year round foliage and clusters of small white, pink, or rose purple flowers in spring.
  • If it's cobalt pink rather than pale rose in color, it has been treated with a chemical bath of dye and extra sweetening agents.
  • If the rose is not a poem, the poem is surely a rose.
  • The number of students enrolled in computer-science programs rose for the first time in six years, says a new report.
  • According to accounts of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed.
  • Europeans have dubbed it the rose moon, while other cultures named it the hot moon for the beginning of the summer heat.
  • In the present context, let's say that you buried your beloved dog beneath a rose bush in your garden.
  • Vertical grooves indicate where a platform once rose.
British Dictionary definitions for rosé

rosé

/ˈrəʊzeɪ/
noun
1.
any pink wine, made either by removing the skins of red grapes after only a little colour has been extracted or by mixing red and white wines
Word Origin
C19: from French, literally: pink, from Latin rosarose1

rose1

/rəʊz/
noun
1.
  1. any shrub or climbing plant of the rosaceous genus Rosa, typically having prickly stems, compound leaves, and fragrant flowers
  2. (in combination): rosebush, rosetree
2.
the flower of any of these plants
3.
any of various similar plants, such as the rockrose and Christmas rose
4.
  1. a moderate purplish-red colour; purplish pink
  2. (as adjective): rose paint
5.
a rose, or a representation of one, as the national emblem of England
6.
(jewellery)
  1. a cut for a diamond or other gemstone, having a hemispherical faceted crown and a flat base
  2. a gem so cut
7.
a perforated cap fitted to the spout of a watering can or the end of a hose, causing the water to issue in a spray
8.
a design or decoration shaped like a rose; rosette
9.
(electrical engineering) Also called ceiling rose. a circular boss attached to a ceiling through which the flexible lead of an electric-light fitting passes
10.
(history) See red rose, white rose
11.
bed of roses, a situation of comfort or ease
12.
under the rose, in secret; privately; sub rosa
verb
13.
(transitive) to make rose-coloured; cause to blush or redden
Derived Forms
roselike, adjective
Word Origin
Old English, from Latin rosa, probably from Greek rhodon rose

rose2

/rəʊz/
verb
1.
the past tense of rise
Word Origin and History for rosé

rose

n.

Old English rose, from Latin rosa (source of Italian and Spanish rosa, French rose; also source of Dutch roos, German Rose, Swedish ros, Polish rozha, Russian roza, Lithuanian rozhe, Hungarian rózsa, Irish ros, Welsh rhosyn, etc.), probably via Italian and Greek dialects from Greek rhodon "rose" (Aeolic wrodon), ultimately from Persian *vrda-.

But cf. Tucker: "The rose was a special growth of Macedonia & the Thracian region as well as of Persia, & the Lat. & Gk. names prob. came from a Thraco-Phrygian source." Aramaic warda is from Old Persian; the modern Persian cognate, via the usual sound changes, is gul, source of Turkish gül "rose." Klein proposes a PIE *wrdho- "thorn, bramble."

The form of the English word was influenced by the French. Used as a color name since 1520s. In English civil wars of 15c., the white rose was the badge of the House of York, the red of its rival Lancaster. In the figurative sense, bed of roses is from 1590s. To come up roses is attested from 1969; the image, though not the wording, from 1855. To come out smelling like a rose is from 1968. Rose of Sharon (Song of Sol. ii:1) is attested from 1610s and named for the fertile strip of coastal Palestine. The flower has not been identified; used in U.S. since 1847 of the Syrian hibiscus.

light red wine, 1897, from French vin rosé, literally "pink wine."

Slang definitions & phrases for rosé

rose

noun

A comatose and dying patient

Related Terms

come up smelling like a rose, smell like a rose

[Medical; fr the color and the perilous frailty of such a patient]


rosé in the Bible

Many varieties of the rose proper are indigenous to Syria. The famed rose of Damascus is white, but there are also red and yellow roses. In Cant. 2:1 and Isa. 35:1 the Hebrew word _habatstseleth_ (found only in these passages), rendered "rose" (R.V. marg., "autumn crocus"), is supposed by some to mean the oleander, by others the sweet-scented narcissus (a native of Palestine), the tulip, or the daisy; but nothing definite can be affirmed regarding it. The "rose of Sharon" is probably the cistus or rock-rose, several species of which abound in Palestine. "Mount Carmel especially abounds in the cistus, which in April covers some of the barer parts of the mountain with a glow not inferior to that of the Scottish heather." (See MYRRH ØT0002632 [2].)

Idioms and Phrases with rosé

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