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ˈrose-ˌcolour, n.
Also rose colour.
[f. rose n. or a.]
1. The colour of a rose; rosy or crimson tint or hue. Also attrib.
1382Wyclif Esther xv. 8 She forsothe thurȝshed the chere with rose colour [1388 colour of roosis]. 1526Tindale Revelation xvii. 4 And the woman was arayed in purple and rose color. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Amethistus, The more rose colour the better. 1611Florio, Rodite, a precious stone of a Rose-colour. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Anemone, The Turkish or Bizantine [anemone], of a Rose-colour. 1780J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain (1781) 318 [It is] called Rosiclei by mineralogists, from its rose-colour appearance. 1793T. Beddoes Calculus, etc. 222 The blood contained in the left ventricle..was of a rose colour. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 452 Body shaded with rose-colour, and silvery. 1856Dana Rudim. Treat. Min. 72 Rhodonite..is of a beautiful rose colour, inclining sometimes to violet.
transf.1865Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. (1866) I. xxv. 280 Such were the facts, but rose-colour was the medium through which they were seen. 1870Emerson Soc. & Sol., Farming, The farmer's office is..important, but you must not try to paint him in rose-colour. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 419/1 Lawson..was inclined to see things in rose-color.
2. fig. A pleasant or attractive experience or outlook. (So F. couleur de rose: see couleur.)
1857Trollope Barchester T. III. ix. 177 It was not all rose colour with Mr. Slope, although his hopes ran high. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Reminisc. I. 313 Even a fashionable painter's life is not all rose colour. 1885New Bk. Sports 222 A canoe trip cannot be warranted to be all rose-colour more than any other human undertaking.
So ˈrose-ˌcolour v. (see quot.). rare.
1556Olde Antichrist 11 As for this beast, he hathe allready rose coloured him self a great while with sayntes blood. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xv. 281 Stimulation of RAS results in an enhanced state of arousal to environmental stimuli,..‘rose-coloring’ the individual's subjective appraisal of the world around him. |