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rose cold

rose cold noun: a variety of hay fever, once attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses.

Noun

rose cold (plural rose colds)

  1. (archaic) A variety of hay fever, once attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses.
    • One of th' worst fits he ever had," said Martha, "was one time they took him out where the roses is by the fountain. He'd been readin' in a paper about people gettin' somethin' he called 'rose cold' an' he began to sneeze an' said he'd got it an' then a new gardener as didn't know th' rules passed...1910 November – 1911 August, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, published 1911, →OCLC

rose cold meaning in Kannada

rose cold in Kannada

ಕರಡು ಜ್ವರ, ಕರಡು ಬಿಸುಪು

Forms of rose cold

pluralrose colds

Questions about rose cold

What does rose cold mean?
Rose cold means a variety of hay fever, once attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses.
What is rose cold in Kannada?
Rose cold in Kannada is ಕರಡು ಜ್ವರ, ಕರಡು ಬಿಸುಪು. See Rose cold meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is rose cold?
Rose cold is a noun.
What is the plural of rose cold?
The plural of rose cold is rose colds.

Words near rose cold in the dictionary

  1. rose campion
  2. rose campions
  3. rose chafer
  4. rose chafers
  5. Rose City
  6. rose cold
  7. rose colds
  8. rose comb
  9. rose combs
  10. Rose Cottage
  11. Rose Croix

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