rose-colored glasses

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Etymology

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Phrase appears as early as 1830 according to OED.[1] From rose-color or rose-colored (meaning "pleasant"), from the notion that roses are widely regarded as uncommonly beautiful. [2]

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Noun

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rose-colored glasses pl (plural only) (American spelling)

  1. (idiomatic) An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is.
    • 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
      Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored,‎ glasses.

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References

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  1. ^ “rose-tinted spectacles”, in TheFreeDictionary.com‎[1], Farlex, Inc, 2015, archived from the original on 13 June 2021
  2. ^ “rose-colored word origin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary‎[2], (Can we date this quote?)
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