c1857 J. R. Lowell (1896) 9 So sang she, feeling in her bosom stir The rose-soft palms of that first murderer.
1916 J. Joyce iv. 180 It was only..within rosesoft stuffs that he dared to conceive of the soul or body of a woman moving with tender life.
1932 E. Sitwell iv. 68 The rose-full, rose-soft, hooped dresses are wet with dew.