roˈsetted, a.
[f. rosette n. + -ed2.]
1. a. Having, furnished or ornamented with, rosettes; formed into rosettes.
| 1836 E. Howard R. Reefer xxviii, His laced cocked hat, with the rosetted corners. 1836–7 Dickens Sk. Boz, Scenes xx, Knee cords and tops superseded nankeen drawers and rosetted shoes. 1871 Figure-Training 75 Balancing herself on the very tips of her rosetted and high-heeled slippers. 1901 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XII. 166 Even the loose and less coherent matrix reveals, under the action of wind and rain, an ill-defined, though unmistakably radiate, or rosetted structure. 1955 Mineral Abstr. XII. 573 Rosetted crusts of silver-white semseyite on galena. 1966 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain iv. 47 There they [sc. cheetahs]..glared up at their rosetted relative. The humourless leopard glared back at them. 1969 Internat. Arch. Allergy XXXV. 214 (caption) Typical appearance of rosetted cells obtained with the suspension-centrifugation technique. 1975 Daily Tel. 8 Sept. 13 Triumphantly rosetted and bristling with the familiar red-and-white battle insignia of Manchester United. |
b. Of skin or pelt: marked with rosette-like blemishes.
| 1905 W. E. Castle Heredity of Coat Characters in Guinea-Pigs & Rabbits 75 A rosetted or rough coat is unknown in rabbits. 1960 O. Manning Great Fortune i. 20 The skin was mottled purple and rosetted with yellow scabs. |
c. Having been awarded a rosette.
| 1972 Times 6 May 9/3 As delicious as any rosetted specialité. |
2. Affected with rosette disease.
| 1891 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Veg. Physiol. & Path. I. 48 Many of the roofs of rosetted trees were honey⁓combed by gum-pockets. 1937 K. M. Smith Textbk. Plant Virus Dis. ii. 186 The rosetted plant may flower, but few of the pegs make any growth. 1949 Butler & Jones Plant Path. viii. 289 ‘Rosetted’ peaches nearly always die the following autumn or winter. |