Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fragrant preparation made by steeping or distilling rose petals in water, used in cosmetics, as toilet water, and in cookery.
Wiktionary
- n. The water-soluble portion of the distillate of rose petals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. perfume consisting of water scented with oil of roses
Examples
“Then came forward the Princess Husn Maryam and sprinkled rose water on them, till they revived when she said to them, “Allah hath reunited you.””
“When he had eaten, he said, “Give us some thing to drink, O Ali;” and the host set before him, in vessels of gold and silver and crystal, raisin wine boiled down to one third with fruits and spices; and the cupbearers were pages like moons, clad in garments of Alexandrian stuff interwoven with gold and bearing on their breasts beakers of crystal, full of rose water mingled with musk.”
“Stoker used to work at the Hammam all day for a wage of five dirhams, whereof he spent every day, for Zau al-Makan, one dirham upon sugar and sherbet of rose water and willow flower water,236 and another dirham for fowls; and he ceased not to entreat him thus kindly during a whole month, till the traces of illness ceased from him and he was once more sound and whole.”
“Meanwhile, the Stoker went to the market and bought some rose water and sugar, and sprinkled Zau al-Makan’s face with the water and gave him to drink of the sherbet.”
““Would Heaven it were so!” replied he and ceased not humbly to importune me, till I had pity on him and repeated it; whereupon he cried out with a grievous cry and fell into a fit worse than before and I doubted not but that he was dead; but I sprinkled rose water on him till he revived and sat up.”
“Then they brought basin and ewer and I washed my hands and we scented ourselves with rose water musk’d and sat down again to converse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rose water’.
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Aromata Aromatica
Fragrant things and terms that describe them. Generic names of botanical binomials aren't capitalized if the unconventional lower case form has a useful Wordnik definition. I'm primarily seeking te...
hircine, ajwain, alliin, anisaldehyde, sotolon, spicebush, sweetbox, wintergreen, valencene, citrusy, citronellal, full-bodied and 162 more...
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I Found A Rose
List of words that contain the string of letters "rose" - from aprosexia nasalis to prosectionist.
aprosexia nasalis, prosectionist, erose, roseate, tuberose, morose, grosella, retrosexual, serose, arose, Drosera, haroset and 156 more...
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The Sweet Smell of...
Things that smell good.
rain, rose, cinnamon, clove, jasmine, apple, sandalwood, rexo, bamboo, bacon, maple, eucalyptus and 36 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (R)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
rabicano, raceme, radiant, raggedy ann, rain, rambling rose, ramparts, rampion, rapacious, rapier, rapine, rarebit and 66 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rose water.
bilby I immerse myself in the Buzurriya Souq
Set a sail in a cloud of spices
Clouds of cloves
And cinnamon . . .
And camomile . . .
I perform ablutions in rose water once.
And in the water of passion many times . . . "
- Nizar Qabbani, 'Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?' Sep 16, 2008
treeseed Rose water or rose syrup is the hydrosol portion of the distillate of rose petals. Rose water, itself a by-product of the production of rose oil for use in perfume, is used to flavour food, as a component in some cosmetic and medical preparations, and for religious purposes throughout Europe and Asia.
Rose water has a very distinctive flavour and is used heavily in South Asian, West Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine—especially in sweets. For example, rose water gives loukoumia (turkish delight) and gulab jamuns their distinctive flavours. In Iran it is also added to tea, ice cream, cookies and other sweets in small quantities, and in the Arab world and India it is used to flavour milk and dairy-based dishes such as rice pudding.
_Wikipedia Jun 9, 2008