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rose bowl
[f. rose n. + bowl n.1]
1. A bowl designed to hold cut roses; spec. such a bowl offered as a prize in a competition.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 545/2 Rose Bowl, 6½ inch, imitation of heavy cut glass. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 25 July 7/1 (Advt.), Brilliant Beauty Glassware Assortment..Rose Bowls—Clear crystal, beautiful design. Special, each 50c. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xii. 232 The room was full of the scent of the pastels burning in the great rose-bowl by the telephone. 1970P. Bair Tribunal iii. ii. 161 For the winner a prize of two hundred pounds was waiting, together with a handsome rose bowl. 1972Daily Tel. 10 Oct. 13 Today's young people hardly know what a rose-bowl is. 1976South Notts Echo 16 Dec. 3/5 The winner will receive a silver rose-bowl which is competed for annually.
2. U.S. (With capital initials.) The name of a football stadium at Pasadena, California, used attrib. and absol. of a football match played between rival college teams annually on New Year's Day at the conclusion of the local Tournament of Roses.
1930Los Angeles Times 2 Jan. (Sports section) 1/1 Southern California's smashing victory gives that institution two wins in as many Rose Bowl games... The other triumph was scored over Penn State in 1923. 1947Collier's 29 Nov. 89/2 Getting to the Rose Bowl is even simpler this year because Illinois, as the winner last year, isn't eligible to go until three years are up. 1959Boston Herald 1 Jan. 75/4 When you tune in the Rose Bowl, watch the quarterbacks. 1969Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 1d/3 Michigan's football team began working out without equipment Tuesday in preparation for the trip to Pasadena, Calif., for the Rose Bowl game against Southern California New Year's Day. 1971J. Henderson Copperhead xx. 244 It was Lourdes, the Rose Bowl, and a Democratic Convention all in one gargantuan jumble. 1976Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. h–5/1 Michigan football Coach Bo Schembechler agrees with Southern California's John Robinson that the Rose Bowl should decide the national championship. |