rosepetal

plural rosepetals

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of rose petal.

   With much fuss and kindness they brought me coffee and candied rosepetal jam — delicious indeed.

   1978, Alfred F. Rosa, The Old century and the new: essays in honor of Charles Angoff, page 122

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   A gallery opening in Albuquerque's Nob Hill or Santa Fe's Canyon Road, leading to some rosepetal-dusted squab enchiladas for dinner, followed by dancing to Middle Eastern techno-fusion music, capped off by coffee and poetry […]

   2003, in the Collector's Guide, volume 17, number 1, page 63

   […] presses herself scrapbook rosepetal flat against the old bricks and mortar as far as the wall runs.

   2007, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Threshold

1. As soft, delicate or (red- or pink-) coloured as the petal of a rose.

   […] lonely cock atop iron girders wears rosepetal smile […]

   sometime 1900-1963, William Carlos Williams, A Struggle, printed in The lost works of William Carlos Williams by Robert J. Cirasa, page 55

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   Today Greer says her first impression of Diane was of "a rosepetal-soft, delicate little girl. […]"

   1995, Patricia Bosworth, Diane Arbus: a biography, page 314

   […] and a foot in a gold sandal steps down. Soft and arched and almost white. Rosepetal toes curling in disdain away from what lines the street, wadded paper, rotting peels, dog shit, shucked-off condoms thrown from the back windows of cars.

   1998, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

   Small hands flailed, the downy head turned from one side to another and suddenly the rosepetal mouth opened and Emily let out a wail.

   2011, Catherine George, No More Secrets