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Definition of Roselike
1. resembling a rose [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roselike
Literary usage of Roselike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"The roselike glow sent forth its rays of rhyme; ways, days, blaze, Braise, raise.
Its rays burned up the world, consumed the hearts of men and angels: the ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"The roselike glow sent forth its rays of rhyme; ways, days, blaze, praise, raise.
Its rays burned up the world, consumed the hearts of men and angels: the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Cistus does not grow wild in America, but some species are cultivated in greenhouses
and the warmer regions for the beauty of their large, wild, roselike ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1867)
"... a flush too pink and roselike for health upon her cheek. "Poor little thing;
it is too early for that—she is only a child. ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1899)
"... the underbrush and the roselike shrub known as ' mountain misery,' both of
the latter, however, often feeding in the trees, usually in the black oaks. ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Kyd by Thomas Kyd (1901)
"... of their heads: That with thy roselike, Royal peace (O Prince) all other
princes thou must ouer-peere. ..."
7. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1881)
"... a last look at her roselike face, and then in a little breeze of laughter,
perfume, and musical words she fluttered out of the room. ..."
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