Definition of Rose-red

1. Adjective. Of a deep slightly bluish red color.

Similar to: Chromatic

Medical Definition of Rose-red

1. Red as a rose; specifically, of a pure purplish red colour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose-red

roscoelite
roscoes
roscovitine
rose
rose-apple tree
rose-cheeked
rose-colored
rose-colored pastor
rose-colored starling
rose-coloured
rose-cut
rose-garden
rose-petal
rose-petals
rose-red (current term)
rose-ringed parakeet
rose-root
rose acacia
rose apple
rose bay
rose bed
rose beetle
rose bengal
rose bengal radioactive test
rose bug
rose burner
rose campion
rose cephalic tetanus

Literary usage of Rose-red

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"SNOW-WHITE AND rose-red THERE was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose- trees, ..."

2. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1903)
"The woman had two daughters who were 6 so much like the roses that she called one Snow-White and the other Rose-Red. Both were sweet and good, but they were ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"2 in. across; petals brick-red, with a green spot at the base bordered with rose-red: caps, between club- and top-shaped, flat on top, the disk 6-11-nerved. ..."

4. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"179 Margaret Hunt's translation of Grimm's "Snow-White and Rose-Red" follows. It has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful and appealing of folk ..."

5. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"179 Margaret Hunt's translation of Grimm's "Snow-White and Rose-Red" follows. It has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful and appealing of folk ..."

6. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"XIII SNOW-WHITE; rose-red JUST before Thanksgiving the affairs of the Simpsons reached what might have been called a crisis, even in their family, ..."

7. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1910)
"XIII SNOW-WHITE; rose-red JUST before Thanksgiving the affairs of the Simpsons reached what might have been called a crisis, even in their family, ..."

8. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Glowing rose-red, had dipped his wearied wheel Deep in Iberian seas, and brought back night Above the fading day. So near the town Both pitch their camps ..."

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