roseless
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a word derived from
rose.
rosenounany of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Example Sentences
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It is, perhaps, because of this that he is comparatively so roseless a poet.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
What purest mouth, but roseless for great woe, With zeal to youthful lovers never known Presses a new-made grave, and through the blades Of grass wind-shaken breathes her piteous prayer?
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
And she illustrated with the stemless rose—dash it, no; the roseless stem!
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
To take your place roseless was to proclaim that you had not been asked until the eleventh hour.
From Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Below, in the garden, it was quite dark, and I could only see dimly the dead leaves that were whirling and dancing uncannily over the roseless paths.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery