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rosmarine

rosmarine noun: dew from the sea.

Noun

rosmarine (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Dew from the sea.
    • That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine.1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness
  2. (obsolete) Rosemary.
    • Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline, / Cold lettuce, and refreshing rosmarine1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
    • biting on anise-seed and rose-marine1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Questions about rosmarine

What does rosmarine mean?
Rosmarine means dew from the sea.
What part of speech is rosmarine?
Rosmarine is a noun.

Words near rosmarine in the dictionary

  1. Roslynmead
  2. Rosman
  3. Rosmans
  4. rosmarinate
  5. rosmarinates
  6. rosmarine
  7. rosmarinic
  8. rosmarinic acid
  9. rosmarinine
  10. Rosmerta
  11. Rosminian

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