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Definition of Rosettes
1. rosette [n] - See also: rosette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosettes
Literary usage of Rosettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Lvs. ol the barren rosettes strongly ciliated on the edge, and furnished with a
tuft of ... A. Petals not fimbriated : young rosettes not peduncled 11. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Barren rosettes \l/z-2 in. diam. surrounded by a dense circle of young ones ...
Barren rosettes 2-3 in. diam., the copious young ones sessile or nearly so: ..."
3. The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht by Arthur Cruttenden Mace, Herbert Eustis Winlock (1916)
"Construction Not known elsewhere Composition of the shell necklace Similar
necklaces elsewhere Composition of the "Sa-amulet" necklace The rosettes were ..."
4. The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery by Agnes Newhall Stillwell, J. L. Benson (1984)
"Fo of spoked rosettes, blobs (some with incisions) and one large ... Frieze,
bounded by double bands, of eight large spoked rosettes. Short rays at base. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The salts crystallise well ; the hydrobromide B-HBr,3H2O in prisms ; the nitrate
B-HNO, in rosettes of rhombic prisms, mp 222° and 232° ..."
6. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"without recourse to "design"—to those accustomed liberties with leaves and blossoms
in the "conventionalized " rosettes so prevalent in decoration. ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The boundary thread i? turned at the shoulders into the form of rosettes having
the appearance of two parts twisted together. 6. On each edge of the leaf or ..."
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