rose watern.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊz ˌwɔːtə/, U.S.

/ˈroʊz ˌwɔdər/,

/ˈroʊz ˌwɑdər/

Forms: see rose n.¹ and adj.¹ and water n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rose n.¹, water n.

Etymology: < rose n.¹ + water n. Compare Middle Dutch rosewater, roosewater (Dutch rozenwater), Middle Low German rōsenwāter, Middle High German rōs-wazzer, rōsen-wazzer (German Rosenwasser), Old Icelandic rósa-vatn, Old Swedish rosa vatn, rosenvatn (Swedish rosenvatten), Danish rosenvand. Compare also Middle French, French eau rose, †eau de rose (14th cent.), post-classical Latin aqua rosata (from c1190 in British sources).In quots. 1819, 1830 at sense A. 2, 1837 at sense B. ultimately after French Voulez-vous qu'on vous fasse des révolutions à l'eau rose? ‘Do you require that revolutions be made with rose water?’, attributed to S. R. N. Chamfort (d. 1794) by J. F. Marmontel ( Œuvres complètes (1818) II. 294) as a quip in response to Marmontel's expression of regret for the excesses of the Revolution.

A. n.

a. Water distilled from roses or scented with essence of roses, used as a perfume or flavouring, or in medicinal preparations, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > specifically

ewrosec1350

stacte1382

oil of rosesa1398

rose watera1398

sandalc1400

musk?a1425

damask water?1520

malabathrum1543

orris1545

civet1553

ambracan1555

rose cake1559

lavender-water1563

oil of spikenard1565

zibet1594

orange-flower water1595

orris powder?1600

spike-oil1611

angel water1634

cypress-powder1634

angelica1653

jasmine1670

jessamy1671

rosat1674

frangipane1676

marechale1676

orangery1676

tuberose1682

jasmine-water1750

otto1759

rose geranium1773

millefleurs1775

new-mown hay1789

attar1798

eau-de-Cologne1802

Cologne1814

dedes1817

eau de Portugal1825

verbena1837

rondeletia1838

bay-rum1840

Florida water1840

citronelle1841

patchouli1843

citronella1849

gardenia1851

sandalwood oil1851

Ess Bouquet1855

marmala water1857

mignonette1858

spikenard oil1861

sandalwood1865

serpolet1866

ylang-ylang1876

flower-water1886

lily1890

lilac1895

stephanotis1895

tea rose1897

chypre1898

Peau d'Espagne1898

violette de Parme1904

poppy1905

Parma violet1907

wallflower1907

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 213^v Delicate men temper þe wyne wiþ rose water.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 136 (MED) To plastre with þe same þing it is profitable, or with..the softnesse of apples soden in rose water.

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 171 (MED) Take and putte þe quantyte of an egge of datys with-owte stonys..in vj powund of rose watyre.

a1525 Cov. Leet-bk. 292 He payde for a glasse of Rose water that my lord Ryvers had ij s.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cv^v Their Priestes..washe the Image of the deuyll with rose water.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C4 Their nere bitten beardes must..be dewd euerie daie with rose water.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 95 Orenges sliced and sopped in Rose-water and Sugar, are very good to coole..the stomacke.

1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 588 The Rose-water is not the lesse sweet, because one writes worm-wood water on the glasse.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 111 It is of these Roses we make the best Rose-Water.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. xi. 354 After dinner you shall bathe them [sc. your eyes] in rose water.

1826 Spirit of Times 25 Mar. 376/1 A rosarium is both agreeable and profitable, affording rose-buds for the pot-pourri, and leaves for scent-bags and rose-water.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xii. 112 He..could scent his pocket-handkerchief with rose-water.

1889 E. Lynn Linton Thro' Long Night I. i. ii. 20 Sly may..splash his spatulous fingers in rose-water.

1952 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 142/2 ‘Oh’, she caroled in delight, holding it [sc. a bottle of French perfume] to her nose. ‘I have been so sick of the rose water.’

1960 N. Coward Diary 26 Apr. (2000) 435 We sat on cushions, washed our hands in rose-water, and ate, with our fingers, a dish called pastilia.

2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 41 Oranges are frequently served, also, flavoured with rosewater or dressed with dates or walnuts.

b. As a count noun. Now rare.In early use frequently in plural with singular agreement.

ΚΠ

1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani i. sig. A.iii We be crowned with roses & fresshe floures. Bathed in damaske and rose waters.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xiii. 33 So came they thether,..finding there..coralls, Rose waters, and all kinde of Conserues.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. v. sig. Ll6 Haue you euer seene a pure Rosewater kept in a christal glas; how fine it lokes, how sweet it smels?

1625 in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. xvi. 556 Fourteene Camels of distilled Sweet Waters, seuen of Rose Waters.

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa i. iii. 16 A Rose-water of a fair colour, and as much or more Vermillion then the Roses from whence they were drawn.

1737 H. Bracken Midwife's Compan. 254 Wash the Child's Mouth with Barley and Rose-waters mixed with a little Juice of Lemon and Honey of Roses.

?1773 Mrs. Pennington Royal Cook 74 Beat very fine with rose-waters a pound of butter melted with a pint of cream.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 70 A fragrant rose water is distilled from the root [of yellow rose-wort].

1873 Canad. Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 6 50 The ancient Greeks and Romans, the Egyptians and the Hindoos, were acquainted with rose-waters.

1920 C. Caspari Treat. on Pharmacy (ed. 6) 252 The stronger..rose-waters are obtained..by distilling the fresh flowers..of the hundred-leaved or pale rose.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something pleasant, refined, gentle, conciliatory, or sentimental; pleasantness, gentleness, sentimentality. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun]

lustfulnessa900

sweetnessc900

sootnessc1000

unloathfulnessc1350

sugarc1374

pleasancec1395

agreeability?c1400

dulcourc1429

pleasure1497

pleasantnessa1500

douceness1518

dulceness?1526

dulcetness1528

pleasancy1545

ungrieffulness1556

acceptableness1565

rose water1584

pleasingnessa1586

amenity?1591

pleasing1591

acceptance1594

suavity1594

prettiness1604

jucundity1620

dulcity1623

pleasurableness1626

agreeablenessa1631

placency1639

acceptability1647

dulce1654

amicableness1667

pleasurability1793

niceness1809

dulciness1828

enjoyableness1868

Gemütlichkeit1892

sweetness and light1927

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > gentleness

facility?a1425

gentleness1583

rose water1584

1584 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao iv. iv. sig. F2 You weepe rose water, when you aske, and spitte vineger, when you haue obteined.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 10 Wetting Cupids winges with rosewater, and tricking vp his quiuer with sweete perfumes.

1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends i. viii Rellish In the rose-water of a Knighthood, strew'd O're with the Sugar of a yearely rent Of some nine hundred.

1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxiv. 103 As for the Chapel..it shall be a Chapel of Rose-water.

1764 Oxf. Sausage 176 With earthly Rose-water he did delight ye, But now he deals in heavenly Aqua-vitae.

1819 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Oct. (1976) VI. 226 On either side harm must be done before good can accrue—revolutions are not to be made with rose water.

1830 Morning Chron. 4 Aug. But for the 1500 killed and wounded..this would almost have been what Mirabeau said was impossible: a revolution of rose-water.

1890 Blackwood's Mag. 147 420/2 It is only sentimentalists and spurters of rose-water that object to it.

1905 J. H. Whitson Justin Wingate ii. iv. 171 That paper, which poured vitriol on you to-day, will shower you with rosewater and honey to-morrow, if what you do pleases it.

B. adj.

In form rose-water, rosewater. Pleasant, gentle, conciliatory; refined. Now rare.In quot. 1598 of language: fair, flattering.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] > of words or manners

fairOE

honeyed1435

glozed1509

fair-tongued1541

fine1568

smoothed1568

smoothinga1592

sugary1591

slicked1594

rose water1598

rose-watered1599

candied1604

soft1609

courtlya1616

smooth-faced1626

oileda1640

blandished1671

sugar1687

fair-spoken1704

smooth-tongued1761

silky1778

pill-gilded1822

blarneyfied1830

greasy1848

blarneyed1861

soothering1866

soothing-syrupy1902

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > not harsh or gentle

meekc1230

nesha1250

tender1340

softa1398

sober1455

gentle1508

silken1601

milken1648

rose water1837

paddy1962

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [adjective]

stillc825

tamec888

nesheOE

mildeOE

softOE

lithea1000

daftc1000

methefulOE

sefteOE

meekc1175

benign1377

pleasablea1382

mytha1400

tendera1400

unfelona1400

mansuetea1425

meeta1425

gentlec1450

moy1487

placablea1522

facile1539

effeminate1594

silver1596

mildya1603

unmalicious1605

uncruel1611

maliceless1614

tender-hefteda1616

unpersecutive1664

baby-milda1845

rose water1855

turtlish1855

unvindictive1857

soft-boiled1859

tenderful1901

soft-lining1967

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > [adjective] > specifically of persons

refined1598

polite1601

inlanda1616

researched1636

spirituel1673

elegant1691

kid-gloved1848

kid glove1856

fine-drawn1876

rose water1883

sophisticated1895

subtle1904

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > comfortable (of conditions or way of life)

easyc1380

easefulc1425

commodiousa1528

commoditious1574

carpeta1639

large1722

snug1766

comfortable1769

liveable1794

comfy1829

featherbed-campaigner1888

rose water1889

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C4 Nothing but cossenage doth the world possesse... Come to the Court, and Balthazer affords Fountaines of holy and rose-water words.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 368 It is not a Revolt, it is a Revolution; and truly no rose-water one.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xv. 190 ‘They are that,’ replied Mr. Thornton. ‘Rose-water surgery won't do for them.’

1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 738 Because you're not [rich], she will strike for one of them rose-water snobs on Algonquin Avenue.

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 21 I was to be cut adrift.., and sent to rough it among strangers in a new and anything but a rose-water life.

1908 Expositor Dec. 170/2 I let those who like that sort of a rosewater lecture pay for it.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as rose-water bottle, rose-water bowl, rose-water cake, rose-water dish, rose-water ewer, etc.

ΚΠ

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 248 Also Rose-Water Bottles, the best Water whereof is Distilled here.

1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Manners of Nations 49/2 About it [sc. the altar] were several silver flower pots and rose-water bottles.

1869 Corporation & College Plate 6 The fashion of ewers and rose-water dishes was introduced from the East to Europe.

1869 Corporation & College Plate Rose-water Ewer.

1886 Cakes & other Good Things (ed. 2) 3 Rose-water Cake.

1898 W. Jeanes & W. J. Robinson Gunter's Mod. Confect. (ed. 13) 263 Rosewater Ice.

1956 G. Taylor Silver v. 97 A rose-water dish of 1672 belonging to St John's College, Oxford.

1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 243/2 Rose-water ewer and dish or basin, used for finger-washing at table.

2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. f3 I inhaled the fragrance from the open rose water bottle.

C2.

† rosewater pear n. Obsolete a kind of pear with juice that tastes of rose water; a rose pear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > other types of pear

calewey1377

choke-pear1530

muscadel1555

lording1573

bon-chrétienc1575

Burgundian pear1578

king pear1585

amiot1600

bergamot1600

butter pear1600

dew-pear1600

greening1600

bottle pear1601

gourd-pear1601

critling1611

pearc1612

nutmeg1629

rosewater pear1629

amber pear1638

Christian1651

chesil1664

diego1664

frith-pear1664

primate1664

saffron pear1664

Windsor pear1664

nonsuch1674

muscat1675

burnt-cat1676

ambrette1686

sanguinole1693

satin1693

St. Germain pear1693

amadot1706

burree1719

Doyenne1731

beurré1736

colmar1736

chaumontel1755

Marie Louise1817

seckel1817

vergaloo1828

Passe Colmar1837

glou-morceau1859

London sugar1860

Kieffer pear1880

sand pear1880

sandy pear1884

nashi1892

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > early-ripening varieties

pere-jonettec1390

rosewater pear1629

Catherine peara1642

Robine1658

jargonelle1693

jenneting pear1694

summer rose1860

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xxi. 592 The Rosewater peare is a goodly faire peare, and of a delicate taste.

1755 T. Hitt Treat. Fruit-trees 328 Of the rose pears there are two sorts both extremely good; the one is called the curled rose pear, or the rose water pear, for its juice (of which it is very full) tastes like it.

1819 Time's Telescope: Guide to Almanack 188 The Rose-water pear has a rough skin, and is of a brown colour; the juice is very sweet.

1874 P. Lacroix Manners Custom & Dress 116 The caillou rosat, our rosewater pear.

rose-water pipe n. a hookah in which the smoke passes through rose water before reaching the mouth.

ΚΠ

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xxi. 234 A string of beads in one hand, and a splendid narghilé, or rose-water pipe, in the other.

1894 A. Azhderian Under Oriental Skies viii. 152 After games and conversation, the happy company indulge in cigarettes, coffee, sweetmeats and narghile, or the flexible rosewater pipe, much similar to the hookah of Hindoostan.

1939 F. Yeats-Brown European Jungle ix. 256 The buyers are unhurried and unworried, and the sellers puff their rose-water pipes, or sip their coffee imperturbably.

1990 A. Frater Chasing Monsoon v. 165 Maids carry the prince's fans and rose water pipe.

rose-water still n. a still for making rose water.

ΚΠ

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 79 Made by a bare distillation in a common rose-water still.

?1742 H. Glasse Compl. Confectioner 95 If you would have it [sc. orange water] very strong distil it in an ordinary rose-water still.

1892 A. M. Earle China Collecting in Amer. xviii. 378 The old rose-water still that stood, when unused, a cumbrous and mysterious machine under the dusty eaves of the garret.

1917 F. A. Steel Mistress of Men v. 58 The great rose-water stills were set in the shade of tall jamun trees.

1994 M. Rogers in C. Heywood & C. Imber Stud. Ottoman Hist. 274 A series of metal vessels, including two rose-water stills.

Derivatives

ˈrose-watered adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] > of words or manners

fairOE

honeyed1435

glozed1509

fair-tongued1541

fine1568

smoothed1568

smoothinga1592

sugary1591

slicked1594

rose water1598

rose-watered1599

candied1604

soft1609

courtlya1616

smooth-faced1626

oileda1640

blandished1671

sugar1687

fair-spoken1704

smooth-tongued1761

silky1778

pill-gilded1822

blarneyfied1830

greasy1848

blarneyed1861

soothering1866

soothing-syrupy1902

1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. A5^v Smelling rose-waterd odoriferous Poses, Pleasing my mistris with a Mermaides song.

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iv. sig. D8 Mellfluuius, sweete Rose-watred elloquence.

1722 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry II. 199 La Poire rose, i.e. the Rose Pear,..has a Rose-water'd Juice, and is very good.

1876 R. F. Burton in I. Burton Life R. F. Burton (1893) II. 72 My language is not rose-watered.

1905 H. F. Hall Napoleon's Notes on Eng. Hist. iv. 326 After a twelve years' course of Cromwell and civil anarchy, the country wanted a few doses of rose- watered imagination very badly.

2004 K. S. Rothwell Shakespeare on Screen (ed. 2) vi. 125 The sensuous symbols and images from the Induction, the scented bedchamber and the rose-watered bath, for example, are linked with Petruchio.

ˈrose-watery adj.

ΚΠ

1869 Ladies' Repository May 396/2 Kirke White's radiant and rose-watery career infected the colleges of Christendom.

1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 20 June (1972) II. 277 The comparatively rose-watery part of it [sc. a situation in Mrs. Warren's Profession].

2000 Independent (Nexis) 23 Nov. 5 There was a lovely, vaguely rose-watery smell of profit about him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rose water
释义	rose watern.adj. Brit. /ˈrəʊz ˌwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈroʊz ˌwɔdər/, /ˈroʊz ˌwɑdər/ Forms: see rose n.¹ and adj.¹ and water n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rose n.¹, water n. Etymology: < rose n.¹ + water n. Compare Middle Dutch rosewater, roosewater (Dutch rozenwater), Middle Low German rōsenwāter, Middle High German rōs-wazzer, rōsen-wazzer (German Rosenwasser), Old Icelandic rósa-vatn, Old Swedish rosa vatn, rosenvatn (Swedish rosenvatten), Danish rosenvand. Compare also Middle French, French eau rose, †eau de rose (14th cent.), post-classical Latin aqua rosata (from c1190 in British sources).In quots. 1819, 1830 at sense A. 2, 1837 at sense B. ultimately after French Voulez-vous qu'on vous fasse des révolutions à l'eau rose? ‘Do you require that revolutions be made with rose water?’, attributed to S. R. N. Chamfort (d. 1794) by J. F. Marmontel ( Œuvres complètes (1818) II. 294) as a quip in response to Marmontel's expression of regret for the excesses of the Revolution. A. n. 1. a. Water distilled from roses or scented with essence of roses, used as a perfume or flavouring, or in medicinal preparations, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > specifically ewrosec1350 stacte1382 oil of rosesa1398 rose watera1398 sandalc1400 musk?a1425 damask water?1520 malabathrum1543 orris1545 civet1553 ambracan1555 rose cake1559 lavender-water1563 oil of spikenard1565 zibet1594 orange-flower water1595 orris powder?1600 spike-oil1611 angel water1634 cypress-powder1634 angelica1653 jasmine1670 jessamy1671 rosat1674 frangipane1676 marechale1676 orangery1676 tuberose1682 jasmine-water1750 otto1759 rose geranium1773 millefleurs1775 new-mown hay1789 attar1798 eau-de-Cologne1802 Cologne1814 dedes1817 eau de Portugal1825 verbena1837 rondeletia1838 bay-rum1840 Florida water1840 citronelle1841 patchouli1843 citronella1849 gardenia1851 sandalwood oil1851 Ess Bouquet1855 marmala water1857 mignonette1858 spikenard oil1861 sandalwood1865 serpolet1866 ylang-ylang1876 flower-water1886 lily1890 lilac1895 stephanotis1895 tea rose1897 chypre1898 Peau d'Espagne1898 violette de Parme1904 poppy1905 Parma violet1907 wallflower1907 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 213^v Delicate men temper þe wyne wiþ rose water. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 136 (MED) To plastre with þe same þing it is profitable, or with..the softnesse of apples soden in rose water. c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 171 (MED) Take and putte þe quantyte of an egge of datys with-owte stonys..in vj powund of rose watyre. a1525 Cov. Leet-bk. 292 He payde for a glasse of Rose water that my lord Ryvers had ij s. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cv^v Their Priestes..washe the Image of the deuyll with rose water. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C4 Their nere bitten beardes must..be dewd euerie daie with rose water. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 95 Orenges sliced and sopped in Rose-water and Sugar, are very good to coole..the stomacke. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 588 The Rose-water is not the lesse sweet, because one writes worm-wood water on the glasse. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 111 It is of these Roses we make the best Rose-Water. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. xi. 354 After dinner you shall bathe them [sc. your eyes] in rose water. 1826 Spirit of Times 25 Mar. 376/1 A rosarium is both agreeable and profitable, affording rose-buds for the pot-pourri, and leaves for scent-bags and rose-water. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xii. 112 He..could scent his pocket-handkerchief with rose-water. 1889 E. Lynn Linton Thro' Long Night I. i. ii. 20 Sly may..splash his spatulous fingers in rose-water. 1952 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 142/2 ‘Oh’, she caroled in delight, holding it [sc. a bottle of French perfume] to her nose. ‘I have been so sick of the rose water.’ 1960 N. Coward Diary 26 Apr. (2000) 435 We sat on cushions, washed our hands in rose-water, and ate, with our fingers, a dish called pastilia. 2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 41 Oranges are frequently served, also, flavoured with rosewater or dressed with dates or walnuts. b. As a count noun. Now rare.In early use frequently in plural with singular agreement. ΚΠ 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani i. sig. A.iii We be crowned with roses & fresshe floures. Bathed in damaske and rose waters. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xiii. 33 So came they thether,..finding there..coralls, Rose waters, and all kinde of Conserues. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. v. sig. Ll6 Haue you euer seene a pure Rosewater kept in a christal glas; how fine it lokes, how sweet it smels? 1625 in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. xvi. 556 Fourteene Camels of distilled Sweet Waters, seuen of Rose Waters. 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa i. iii. 16 A Rose-water of a fair colour, and as much or more Vermillion then the Roses from whence they were drawn. 1737 H. Bracken Midwife's Compan. 254 Wash the Child's Mouth with Barley and Rose-waters mixed with a little Juice of Lemon and Honey of Roses. ?1773 Mrs. Pennington Royal Cook 74 Beat very fine with rose-waters a pound of butter melted with a pint of cream. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 70 A fragrant rose water is distilled from the root [of yellow rose-wort]. 1873 Canad. Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 6 50 The ancient Greeks and Romans, the Egyptians and the Hindoos, were acquainted with rose-waters. 1920 C. Caspari Treat. on Pharmacy (ed. 6) 252 The stronger..rose-waters are obtained..by distilling the fresh flowers..of the hundred-leaved or pale rose. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something pleasant, refined, gentle, conciliatory, or sentimental; pleasantness, gentleness, sentimentality. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] lustfulnessa900 sweetnessc900 sootnessc1000 unloathfulnessc1350 sugarc1374 pleasancec1395 agreeability?c1400 dulcourc1429 pleasure1497 pleasantnessa1500 douceness1518 dulceness?1526 dulcetness1528 pleasancy1545 ungrieffulness1556 acceptableness1565 rose water1584 pleasingnessa1586 amenity?1591 pleasing1591 acceptance1594 suavity1594 prettiness1604 jucundity1620 dulcity1623 pleasurableness1626 agreeablenessa1631 placency1639 acceptability1647 dulce1654 amicableness1667 pleasurability1793 niceness1809 dulciness1828 enjoyableness1868 Gemütlichkeit1892 sweetness and light1927 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > gentleness facility?a1425 gentleness1583 rose water1584 1584 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao iv. iv. sig. F2 You weepe rose water, when you aske, and spitte vineger, when you haue obteined. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 10 Wetting Cupids winges with rosewater, and tricking vp his quiuer with sweete perfumes. 1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends i. viii Rellish In the rose-water of a Knighthood, strew'd O're with the Sugar of a yearely rent Of some nine hundred. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxiv. 103 As for the Chapel..it shall be a Chapel of Rose-water. 1764 Oxf. Sausage 176 With earthly Rose-water he did delight ye, But now he deals in heavenly Aqua-vitae. 1819 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Oct. (1976) VI. 226 On either side harm must be done before good can accrue—revolutions are not to be made with rose water. 1830 Morning Chron. 4 Aug. But for the 1500 killed and wounded..this would almost have been what Mirabeau said was impossible: a revolution of rose-water. 1890 Blackwood's Mag. 147 420/2 It is only sentimentalists and spurters of rose-water that object to it. 1905 J. H. Whitson Justin Wingate ii. iv. 171 That paper, which poured vitriol on you to-day, will shower you with rosewater and honey to-morrow, if what you do pleases it. B. adj. In form rose-water, rosewater. Pleasant, gentle, conciliatory; refined. Now rare.In quot. 1598 of language: fair, flattering. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] > of words or manners fairOE honeyed1435 glozed1509 fair-tongued1541 fine1568 smoothed1568 smoothinga1592 sugary1591 slicked1594 rose water1598 rose-watered1599 candied1604 soft1609 courtlya1616 smooth-faced1626 oileda1640 blandished1671 sugar1687 fair-spoken1704 smooth-tongued1761 silky1778 pill-gilded1822 blarneyfied1830 greasy1848 blarneyed1861 soothering1866 soothing-syrupy1902 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > not harsh or gentle meekc1230 nesha1250 tender1340 softa1398 sober1455 gentle1508 silken1601 milken1648 rose water1837 paddy1962 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [adjective] stillc825 tamec888 nesheOE mildeOE softOE lithea1000 daftc1000 methefulOE sefteOE meekc1175 benign1377 pleasablea1382 mytha1400 tendera1400 unfelona1400 mansuetea1425 meeta1425 gentlec1450 moy1487 placablea1522 facile1539 effeminate1594 silver1596 mildya1603 unmalicious1605 uncruel1611 maliceless1614 tender-hefteda1616 unpersecutive1664 baby-milda1845 rose water1855 turtlish1855 unvindictive1857 soft-boiled1859 tenderful1901 soft-lining1967 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > [adjective] > specifically of persons refined1598 polite1601 inlanda1616 researched1636 spirituel1673 elegant1691 kid-gloved1848 kid glove1856 fine-drawn1876 rose water1883 sophisticated1895 subtle1904 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > comfortable (of conditions or way of life) easyc1380 easefulc1425 commodiousa1528 commoditious1574 carpeta1639 large1722 snug1766 comfortable1769 liveable1794 comfy1829 featherbed-campaigner1888 rose water1889 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C4 Nothing but cossenage doth the world possesse... Come to the Court, and Balthazer affords Fountaines of holy and rose-water words. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 368 It is not a Revolt, it is a Revolution; and truly no rose-water one. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xv. 190 ‘They are that,’ replied Mr. Thornton. ‘Rose-water surgery won't do for them.’ 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 738 Because you're not [rich], she will strike for one of them rose-water snobs on Algonquin Avenue. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 21 I was to be cut adrift.., and sent to rough it among strangers in a new and anything but a rose-water life. 1908 Expositor Dec. 170/2 I let those who like that sort of a rosewater lecture pay for it. Compounds C1. General attributive, as rose-water bottle, rose-water bowl, rose-water cake, rose-water dish, rose-water ewer, etc. ΚΠ 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 248 Also Rose-Water Bottles, the best Water whereof is Distilled here. 1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Manners of Nations 49/2 About it [sc. the altar] were several silver flower pots and rose-water bottles. 1869 Corporation & College Plate 6 The fashion of ewers and rose-water dishes was introduced from the East to Europe. 1869 Corporation & College Plate Rose-water Ewer. 1886 Cakes & other Good Things (ed. 2) 3 Rose-water Cake. 1898 W. Jeanes & W. J. Robinson Gunter's Mod. Confect. (ed. 13) 263 Rosewater Ice. 1956 G. Taylor Silver v. 97 A rose-water dish of 1672 belonging to St John's College, Oxford. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 243/2 Rose-water ewer and dish or basin, used for finger-washing at table. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. f3 I inhaled the fragrance from the open rose water bottle. C2. † rosewater pear n. Obsolete a kind of pear with juice that tastes of rose water; a rose pear. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > other types of pear calewey1377 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 critling1611 pearc1612 nutmeg1629 rosewater pear1629 amber pear1638 Christian1651 chesil1664 diego1664 frith-pear1664 primate1664 saffron pear1664 Windsor pear1664 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 ambrette1686 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 amadot1706 burree1719 Doyenne1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 chaumontel1755 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 nashi1892 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > early-ripening varieties pere-jonettec1390 rosewater pear1629 Catherine peara1642 Robine1658 jargonelle1693 jenneting pear1694 summer rose1860 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xxi. 592 The Rosewater peare is a goodly faire peare, and of a delicate taste. 1755 T. Hitt Treat. Fruit-trees 328 Of the rose pears there are two sorts both extremely good; the one is called the curled rose pear, or the rose water pear, for its juice (of which it is very full) tastes like it. 1819 Time's Telescope: Guide to Almanack 188 The Rose-water pear has a rough skin, and is of a brown colour; the juice is very sweet. 1874 P. Lacroix Manners Custom & Dress 116 The caillou rosat, our rosewater pear. rose-water pipe n. a hookah in which the smoke passes through rose water before reaching the mouth. ΚΠ 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xxi. 234 A string of beads in one hand, and a splendid narghilé, or rose-water pipe, in the other. 1894 A. Azhderian Under Oriental Skies viii. 152 After games and conversation, the happy company indulge in cigarettes, coffee, sweetmeats and narghile, or the flexible rosewater pipe, much similar to the hookah of Hindoostan. 1939 F. Yeats-Brown European Jungle ix. 256 The buyers are unhurried and unworried, and the sellers puff their rose-water pipes, or sip their coffee imperturbably. 1990 A. Frater Chasing Monsoon v. 165 Maids carry the prince's fans and rose water pipe. rose-water still n. a still for making rose water. ΚΠ 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 79 Made by a bare distillation in a common rose-water still. ?1742 H. Glasse Compl. Confectioner 95 If you would have it [sc. orange water] very strong distil it in an ordinary rose-water still. 1892 A. M. Earle China Collecting in Amer. xviii. 378 The old rose-water still that stood, when unused, a cumbrous and mysterious machine under the dusty eaves of the garret. 1917 F. A. Steel Mistress of Men v. 58 The great rose-water stills were set in the shade of tall jamun trees. 1994 M. Rogers in C. Heywood & C. Imber Stud. Ottoman Hist. 274 A series of metal vessels, including two rose-water stills. Derivatives ˈrose-watered adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] > of words or manners fairOE honeyed1435 glozed1509 fair-tongued1541 fine1568 smoothed1568 smoothinga1592 sugary1591 slicked1594 rose water1598 rose-watered1599 candied1604 soft1609 courtlya1616 smooth-faced1626 oileda1640 blandished1671 sugar1687 fair-spoken1704 smooth-tongued1761 silky1778 pill-gilded1822 blarneyfied1830 greasy1848 blarneyed1861 soothering1866 soothing-syrupy1902 1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. A5^v Smelling rose-waterd odoriferous Poses, Pleasing my mistris with a Mermaides song. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iv. sig. D8 Mellfluuius, sweete Rose-watred elloquence. 1722 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry II. 199 La Poire rose, i.e. the Rose Pear,..has a Rose-water'd Juice, and is very good. 1876 R. F. Burton in I. Burton Life R. F. Burton (1893) II. 72 My language is not rose-watered. 1905 H. F. Hall Napoleon's Notes on Eng. Hist. iv. 326 After a twelve years' course of Cromwell and civil anarchy, the country wanted a few doses of rose- watered imagination very badly. 2004 K. S. Rothwell Shakespeare on Screen (ed. 2) vi. 125 The sensuous symbols and images from the Induction, the scented bedchamber and the rose-watered bath, for example, are linked with Petruchio. ˈrose-watery adj. ΚΠ 1869 Ladies' Repository May 396/2 Kirke White's radiant and rose-watery career infected the colleges of Christendom. 1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 20 June (1972) II. 277 The comparatively rose-watery part of it [sc. a situation in Mrs. Warren's Profession]. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 23 Nov. 5 There was a lovely, vaguely rose-watery smell of profit about him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1398
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