couleur de rose

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French couleur de rose (literally “rose-coloured”).

Adjective

couleur de rose (not comparable)

1. (dated) Favourable; ideal.
   • 1823, Mammon in London; or, The spy of the day, page 199:

     […] lo! my enchantress appeared at the head of the room, and without her constant attendant, Lord Ryecourt, to whom I had an unutterable aversion. In an instant the mists vanished, and every thing appeared couleur de rose.

   • 1925, Nellie Melba, Melodies and Memories, page 87:

     Everything seemed couleur de rose. I had a flat in the Champs Elysées, and I really think that those days were among the happiest that I ever spent: certainly they were among the most inconsequent.

See also

• rose-colored glasses