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Quotation dates: 1500-1513, 1567-1638
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Rosy, -ie, adj. [ME and e.m.E. rosy (Chaucer); Ros(e n. 1.] a. Full of, or abounding in, roses; yielding roses. b. Having the colour of a rose; rose-red. c. Brethren of the rosie cross, members of the order, or society, of Rosicrucians (cf. 17th c. Eng. rosie-cross ‘the supposed emblem of the Rosicrucians’ (1631 in OED)). —a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 40.
The rosy garth depaynt and redolent With purpur, azure, gold and goulis gent Arayed was a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 51.
[Rosa,] Anglice The rosie tree, Scotiæ concessa —b. 1513 Doug. vi ix 2.
Hir rosy charyot the fresch Aurora … Begouth fortil vproll a1568 Bannatyne MS 234a/19.
My rosy lippis ar woxin paill and blay a1568 Scott xiv 15.
Espy richt so how far the rosy gowlis Passis the wallowit weidis in the vaill c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxi 11. —c. 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 84.
For we be brethren of the rosie cross; We have the mason-word and second sight, Things for to come we can foretell aright
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