Meanings
comparative more rosemaled · superlative most rosemaled
- USAdorned with rosemaling.
Rosemaled Amerika trunks and other items have been prominently displayed in Norwegian American homes in the upper Midwest since frontier days. Early in the twenty-first century, in Norwegian areas of the Midwest, one also sees rosemaling in public settings such as stores and churches.
2006, Philip Nusbaum, “Rosemaling”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 410
Origin
- Norwegian Bokmålrosemalt
- Englishrosemaled
From rosemaling + -ed, modelled after Norwegian Bokmål rosemalt.
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