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Webster 1913 Edition
Roseate
1.
Full of roses; rosy;
as,
. roseate
bowers2.
resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming;
as,
. roseate
beauty; her roseate
lipsRoseate tern
(Zool.)
, an American and European tern (
Sterna Dougalli
) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.Webster 1828 Edition
Roseate
RO'SEATE
,Adj.
1.
Rosy; full of roses; as roseate bowers.2.
Blooming; of a rose color; as roseate beauty.Definition 2024
roseate
roseate
English
Adjective
roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)
- Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 7
- The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers og htis lovely child.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 7
Usage notes
A formal term, primarily used in animal names, and not known or used in common speech. Casual equivalents are pink, rosy, pinkish, and the like.