winter rose
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of winter rose
First recorded in 1735–45
Example Sentences
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Risks from sliding snow are mounting as total accumulation for the winter rose to a record and drifts reached almost twice as high as last year, the Institute said.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 24, 2012
"And she never sung you the song o' the winter rose?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Then fell the steady deluge In which I strove to doze, Hearing all night at my window The knock of the winter rose.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
Grey sky, brown waters: as a bird that flies My heart flits forth to these; Back to the winter rose of Northern skies, Back to the Northern seas.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Like winter rose and summer yce, Her joyes are still untymelye; Before her hope, behind remorse, Fayre first, in fyne unseemely.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
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