roseate

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There was all the sparkle and effervescence of joy in the crystal sunlight as the dawn expanded roseate, and at length flamed dazzling to the zenith when the sun moved over the edge of the world and looked down upon all the earth like the eye of God the Father At the moment, Vanamee stood breast-deep in the wheat in a solitary corner of the Quien Sabe rancho.

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  1. adjective Rose-colored: the roseate glow of dawn.
  2. adjective Cheerful or bright; optimistic: a roseate outlook.

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  • How could you complain, winning like that and with Lily's smile echoing through the chambers of your dim mind as the roseate flush of dawn glimmers like a ludic zephyr o'er the limpid waters of a Disney lagoon? —  FSF,September2006
  • In the service of that blind will, the secret female softness, moist smells; the folded-in, roseate, insides of the female, that a man might penetrate numberless times yet could not perceive or comprehend. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
  • But while his prospects in Europe and the East were roseate, the western horizon bulked threateningly with clouds. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
  • It goes without saying that these “Poems before Congress” had a grudging reception from the critics, because they dared to hint that all was not roseate-hued in England. —  Life of Robert Browning
  • From a table prepared by Sir Robert Giffen, a notoriously optimistic statistician, always the exponent of an ultra-roseate view of social conditions, Professor Mayo-Smith concludes that in England, "about ten per cent of the people receive nearly one half of the total income. —  Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles
 

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  1. From Latin roseus, rosy, from rosa, rose.

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  1. from Latin roseus, rosy, + -ate. Cf. rosated.
 

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