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couleur de rose

couleur de rose adjective: favourable; ideal.

Adjective

couleur de rose (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Favourable; ideal.
    • […] lo! my enchantress appeared at the head of the room, and without her constant attendant, Lord Ryecourt, to whom I had an unutterable aversion. In an instant the mists vanished, and every thing appeared couleur de rose.1823, Mammon in London; or, The spy of the day, page 199
    • Everything seemed couleur de rose. I had a flat in the Champs Elysées, and I really think that those days were among the happiest that I ever spent: certainly they were among the most inconsequent.1925, Nellie Melba, Melodies and Memories, page 87

Origin of couleur de rose

Unadapted borrowing from French couleur de rose (literally “rose-coloured”).

Questions about couleur de rose

What does couleur de rose mean?
Couleur de rose means favourable; ideal.
What part of speech is couleur de rose?
Couleur de rose is an adjective.

Words near couleur de rose in the dictionary

  1. couldve
  2. coulee
  3. coulees
  4. Coules
  5. couleur
  6. couleur de rose
  7. couleurs
  8. Coulibaly
  9. Coulibalys
  10. coulibiac
  11. coulibiacs

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