ˈrose-red, a. and n.
[f. rose n. + red a. and n.1 Cf. MDu. rose(n)root (Du. roze-, rozenrood), MHG. rose(n)rôt (G. rosenrot), MSw. rosenerödh (Sw. rosenröd, Da. -r{obar}d), Icel. rósrauður.]
A. adj. Red like a rose; rose-coloured.
| a 1300 K. Horn 16 He was whit so þe flur, Rose red was his colur. c 1386 Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 254 Two corunes han we, Snow white and Rose reed, that shynen cleere. a 1400 Lybeaus Disc. 1538 Knyghtes..That beth armed sure In rose-reed armure. c 1425 Orolog. Sapient. vii. in Anglia X. 388 By þe vertue of þat rose-rede blode þat þou schaddest. |
| 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 328 Redstone..—Its colour, by reflected light, is rose red. 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 474 Body beautiful rose red, silvery on the sides and abdomen. 1871 R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 275 They..Swim in a rose-red glow. |
B. n. A red like that of a rose.
| a 1400 Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 271 Wrout is on þe bok with-oute, V. paraffys grete & stoute Bolyd in rose red. |
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 53 The l[ichen] physodes gave a yellowish-gray; the pustulatus, a rose red. 1872 Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 1061 Beyond a bridge of treble bow, All in a rose-red from the west. 1882 Garden 1 April 211 They are both of a uniform soft rose-red. |