Hypertext Webster Gateway: "roseate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roseate \Ro"se*ate\, a. [Cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from
roses. See {Roseal}, {Rose}.]
1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
2. resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with
rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate
lips.
{Roseate tern} (Zo["o]l.), an American and European tern
({Sterna Dougalli}) whose breast is roseate in the
breeding season.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
roseate
adj : having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of
dawn" [syn: {rose}, {rosaceous}]
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