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Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage proper noun: an isolation ward for treating venereal disease in sailors when ashore.

Proper noun

Rose Cottage

  1. (slang) An isolation ward for treating venereal disease in sailors when ashore.
  2. (slang) The morgue or mortuary.

Origin of Rose Cottage

From a stereotypical name for a person's home with roses growing around it, but here ironically referring to the red colour of sores or bleeding.

Questions about Rose Cottage

What does Rose Cottage mean?
Rose Cottage means an isolation ward for treating venereal disease in sailors when ashore.
What part of speech is Rose Cottage?
Rose Cottage is a proper noun.

Words near Rose Cottage in the dictionary

  1. Rose City
  2. rose cold
  3. rose colds
  4. rose comb
  5. rose combs
  6. Rose Cottage
  7. Rose Croix
  8. Rose Cross
  9. rose curve
  10. rose curves
  11. rose cut

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