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Definition of Sub-rosa
1. Adjective. Designed and carried out secretly or confidentially. "Has their under-the-table backing"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sub-rosa
Literary usage of Sub-rosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1890)
"SUB ROSA. BY GEORGE HOLMES, AUTHOR OF "FARMER JOHN." . CHAPTER IX. Come, then,
And with my aid go into good society. Life little loves, 'tis true, ..."
2. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer".: A Biographical Sketch by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"... would be unique, sub rosa, of course, viz. to throw a treble arch over the
central dome of the Capitol, containing three rows of colored lamps of ..."
3. Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems by Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1895)
"SUB ROSA,'CRUX. IN times of old, as we are told, When men more child-like at the
feet Of Jesus sat, than now, A chivalry was known more bold Than ours, ..."
4. Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, & C. by Gleeson White (1888)
"SUB ROSA. Under the rows of gas-jets bright, Bathed in a blazing river of light,
A regal beauty sits ; above her The butterflies of fashion hover, ..."
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