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rosette

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See also: Rosette and rôsette

English

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A rosette made of ribbon.
An architectural rosette.

Etymology

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    Proto-Iranian *wardahder.?
    Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon)bor.?
    Latin rosalbor.
    Old French rose
    Latin -ittus
    Old French -ete
    Old French rosete
    Middle French rosettebor.
    Middle French rosette
    English rosette

    Borrowed from Middle French rosette (in sense 15) and (modern) French rosette.

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    A rosette pattern in latte art.
    rosette pastries

    Noun

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    rosette (plural rosettes)

    1. An imitation of a rose made of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
    2. (architecture) A rose-shaped design or ornament, mostly decorative.
    3. (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
    4. A red color.
    5. A rose burner.
    6. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
    7. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
    8. (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
    9. (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
    10. A floral pattern in latte art.
    11. (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
    12. (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
    13. (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
    14. A form of knot.
    16. A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal. [from 1609][1]
      Synonym: rondelle
      • [1609, [Marc Lescarbot], translated by P[ierre] Erondelle, “The leauing of Port du Moutton: […]”, in Noua Francia: Or The Description of That Part of Neuu France, Which Is One Continent with Virginia. […], London: […] Georgii Bishop, page 13:
        It is a high rocke betweene two Bayes of the Sea, wherein the Copper is conioyned with the ſtone, very faire and very pure, ſuch as is that which is called Rozette Copper [translating cuivre de rozette].]
    17. (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
    18. (pathology) Synonym of worm-star

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    References

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    1. ^ “rosette, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

    Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
    (See the entry for “rosette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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    French

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    Etymology

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      From Middle French rosette, from Old French rosete, from rose + -ete. By surface analysis, rose +‎ -ette.

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      Noun

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      rosette f (plural rosettes)

      1. rosette

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      • → Polish: rozeta

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      Noun

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      rosette f

      1. plural of rosetta

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      Middle French

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      Etymology

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        From Old French rosete, from rose + -ete. By surface analysis, rose +‎ -ette.

        Noun

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        rosette f (plural rosettes)

        1. diminutive of rose
        2. rosette (ornamental imitation of a rose)
        3. red spot

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        References

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        • rosette on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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