old rose

American  

noun

1. rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.

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old rose British  

noun

1. 1. a greyish-pink colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      old-rose gloves

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Other Word Forms

• old-rose
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of old rose

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

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old rose

Roses are tougher than you’d think — during the drought I spied many residential yards with dead lawns and an old rose bush still valiantly blooming despite neglect and lack of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics, “the number of business establishments less than one year old rose steadily from 550,000 in 1997, peaked at about 650,000 in 2006, and then has gone straight down.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2016

Litan notes that “the proportion of U.S. companies considered mature, meaning at least 16 years old, rose from 23 percent of all firms in 1992 to 34 percent in 2011.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2015

The old rose colors, occasionally darkening to wine, appeared as silken dresses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012

And in the Northwest there was a flush of rose, old rose that deepened and glowed in lambent crimson where a notch between the Selkirks and Rockies marked the approximate location of historic Boat Encampment.

From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

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