red rose
- the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
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Compare Wars of the Roses, white rose.
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Historical Examples of red rose
Jeanne nodded with a curl of disbelief in her red-rose mouth.
A Little Girl in Old DetroitAmanda Minnie Douglas
Yet as she said it she was thinking how glad she was that she herself was red-rose rather than lily!
Shadows of FlamesAmelie Rives
All her red-rose beauty had gone from the little maid along with her dancing lightness.
The Maid of the Whispering HillsVingie E. Roe
It is the red-rose light, upon the feet of those who dance upon graves.
Visions and RevisionsJohn Cowper Powys
Queeker never by any chance addressed the sun, or the red-rose, or anything else suggestive of health and vigour.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin SandsR.M. Ballantyne
red rose
- English history the emblem of the House of LancasterSee also Wars of the Roses, white rose
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