roseal
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]roseal (comparative more roseal, superlative most roseal)
- (obsolete) Resembling a rose in scent or colour.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- The rosiall colour, whiche was wonte to be in his vysage, [was] tourned into salowe.
- 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto VII. The Great Little One.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] George Boddington, […], published 1651, →OCLC, stanza 226, page 112, column 2:
- For when from roſeall Aurora’s door / Fair Titan shak’d his locks, and marched out; [...]
- 1646-48, Richard Crashaw, Steps To The Temple.
- The rich and roseal spring of those rare sweets.