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adjective

Rose-colored adj.

Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.

Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring; as, rose-colored anticipations.

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Etymology of 'Rose-colored'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rose-colored" Quotes from Famous Books

... him that," said Charost, to whom I had been conveying a rather rose-colored version of ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various

... quit it except at death. The sombre cave of the Tour-Roland alone knew how many bitter imprecations, touching complaints, prayers and sobs she had wafted to heaven in connection with that charming bauble of rose-colored satin. Never was more despair bestowed upon a ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... the morning, and harbinger of the rising sun: whom poets and artists represent as drawn by white horses in a rose-colored chariot, unfolding with her rosy fingers the portals of the East, pouring reviving dew upon the earth, ...

— A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery • Benziger Brothers

... the untended aspect of walk and lawns, of the vigilant British gardener. The manor of Azay, as seen to-day, dates from the early part of the sixteenth century; and the industrious Abbe Chevalier, in his very entertaining though slightly rose-colored book on Touraine,* (* Promenades pittoresque en Touraine. Tours: 1869.) speaks of it as, "perhaps the purest expres- sion of the belle Renaissance francaise." "Its height," he goes on, "is divided between two stories, terminat- ing under the roof in a projecting entablature which imitates ...

— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... worked out rather that way. The three of them, Rodney and the Lakes, at the foot of the stairs, in the clothes they had been working and traveling in all day, looked up simultaneously and saw Rose, gowned for a treat for Rodney, on the first landing; a wonderful rose-colored Boucher tapestry (guaranteed authentic by Bertie Willis) on the wall behind her for a background, and the carved Gothic newel-post bringing out the whiteness of the hand that rested upon it. The picture would ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

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