rose colds
rose colds is the plural of rose cold.
Meaning of rose cold
Noun
rose cold (plural rose colds)
- 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
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- Rose colds is the plural of rose cold.
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