Rosebery
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The colour is believed to be a homage to the fifth Earl of Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, a 19th Century Liberal prime minister and patron of Scottish football.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
In the Rosebery Lounge, Sisi’s spokesman finally appeared and met privately with Eldakhakhny and the other Egyptian journalists for twenty minutes.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016
The painting has never been restored and had only changed hands once before, when it was bought in 1878 by Archibald Primrose, the Earl of Rosebery, who later became a British prime minister.
From Reuters • Dec. 4, 2014
Burns societies and leading individuals such as the Earl of Rosebery opposed the sale and challenged the right of the Athenaeum to sell the papers.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2014
Perhaps when Lord Rosebery is on the point of letting his humor run off with him in a public speech, he could recover his solemnity by thinking of the Examiner.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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