Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The alpine rose, Rosa alpina.
- noun The rhododendron.
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Examples
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Beneath a snow-white skin all the wild beauty of a mountain-rose glowed in her cheeks; each time she moved, a flashing mystery of red and golden lights blazed from the auburn crown piled on her head; stars danced an invitation in the great grey eyes.
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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As I looked out upon the mountain just before sunrise, it showed like a mountain-rose blossoming up out of the earth, -- covered all over with the deepest rose-color ....
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838
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