rose-coloured
Britishadjective
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of the colour rose; rosy
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See rose-tinted
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to view in an excessively optimistic light
Example Sentences
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“They see me as this starry-eyed, rose-coloured glasses kinda girl; the ‘Golden Hour’ girl.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021
“Annie in snow white garments, pale rose-coloured veil, and wreath of dewy half blown buds was as fair a Morning as ever dawned in Ferndale.”
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2020
But the industry is slowly changing as some believe tourists should face the truths of slavery instead of the rose-coloured narrative peddled for so long - even if it makes them uneasy.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2019
And, of course, the well-received retrograde detective series, like Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and The Doctor Blake Mysteries, which present the past through quaint, rose-coloured glasses.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2013
Hard′-hack, the steeple-bush, an erect shrub of the rose family, with rose-coloured or white flowers.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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