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rosé noun [ ˈrəʊzeɪ ]

• any light pink wine, coloured by only brief contact with red grape skins.
• "a glass of rosé"
Origin: French, literally ‘pink’.

rose noun

• a prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions and widely grown as an ornamental.
• a stylized representation of a rose in heraldry or decoration, typically with five petals (especially as a national emblem of England).
• "the Tudor rose"
• a warm pink or light crimson colour.
• "the rose and gold of dawn"
• a perforated cap attached to a shower, the spout of a watering can, or the end of a hose to produce a spray.
• short for compass rose.

rose verb

• make rosy.
• "a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks"
Origin: Old English rōse, of Germanic origin, from Latin rosa ; reinforced in Middle English by Old French rose .

rose verb

• past of rise.

rise verb

• move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up.
• "the tiny aircraft rose from the ground"
• get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling.
• "she pushed back her chair and rose"
Similar: stand up, get/rise to one's feet, get up, jump up, leap up, spring up, become erect, straighten up, arise,
Opposite: sit,
• cease to be submissive, obedient, or peaceful.
• "the activists urged militant factions to rise up"
Similar: rebel, revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up (in arms), take up arms, stage/mount a rebellion, take to the streets,
Opposite: kowtow,
• (of a river) have its source.
• "the Euphrates rises in Turkey"
Similar: originate, begin, start, emerge, appear, issue from, spring from, flow from, emanate from, commence,
Opposite: disgorge,
• (of land or a natural feature) incline upwards; become higher.
• "the moorlands rise and fall in gentle folds"
Similar: slope upwards, slant upwards, go uphill, incline, climb, get higher,
Opposite: shelve, drop away,
• increase in number, size, amount, or degree.
• "land prices had risen"
Similar: go up, get higher, increase, grow, advance, soar, shoot up, surge (up), leap, jump, rocket, escalate, spiral, improve, get better,
Opposite: drop, worsen,
• approaching (a specified age).
• "she was thirty-nine rising forty"
Origin: Old English rīsan ‘make an attack’, ‘wake, get out of bed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rijzen and German reisen .

come up roses

• (of a situation) develop in a very favourable way.
"everything was coming up roses and there was nothing to worry about"

come out smelling of roses

• emerge from a difficult situation with one's reputation intact.
"you came out of a tight spot smelling of roses"

under the rose

• in secret; sub rosa.



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