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Definition of Rose-colored
1. Adjective. Reflecting optimism. "Looked at the world through rose-colored glasses"
2. Adjective. Having a rose color.
Definition of Rose-colored
1. Adjective. (American English) (alternative spelling of rose-coloured) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose-colored
Literary usage of Rose-colored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... the following tetter, which bears most pathetically upon the present Gange
dispute :— Craddle, with rose-colored Sailing & Pink lace hangings, ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... never cordate but the base rhomboid or rounded, blade about 7 in. long and
petiole 3 in., glabrous above and silky beneath: fls. rose-colored or pale ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... the flowers (about an inch long) ch exceeding the involucre : this and the
corolla rose-colored : nearly of habit, and pappus somewhat of Stevia. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"A beautiful species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored flowers,
worthy of cultivation in any rock garden. 1X12. Scilla Peruviana in lull bloom ..."
5. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"It was a veritable miles. rose-colored snow that one felt tempted disembarked,
after our journey of 1o6 fairyland. Through breaks in the clouds 5 sunlit sea ..."
6. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Rose Colored Clouds of Judea.—Configuration of the Dead Sea.—Dense, Buoyant,
Briny Waters.—Smarting of the Hands and Face.—Salt, Ashes, and Sulphureous ..."
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