roseate
adjUS /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/ · UK /ˈɹəʊzɪət/
Etymology From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
- The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
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- On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
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Full of roses.
- To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:
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Figuratively Rosy; optimistic.
- Nothing could have seemed more assured and roseate than her professional future.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- roseate cockatoo, roseately, roseate spoonbill, roseate tern