roseal

comparative more roseal · superlative most roseal

1. obsoleteResembling a rose in scent or colour.

   1646-48, Richard Crashaw, Steps To The Temple. The rich and roseal spring of those rare sweets.

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   The rosiall colour, whiche was wonte to be in his vysage, [was] tourned into salowe.

   1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC

   For when from roſeall Aurora’s door / Fair Titan shak’d his locks, and marched out; [...]

   1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto VII. The Great Little One. Stanza 226.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 112, column 2

   For hours I waited, till the east grew grey and the stars faded, and the grey turned to roseal light edged with gold.

   1921, H. P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City