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rosette

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n. an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor rhizoctinia disease of potatoes [syn: little potato , russet scab , stem canker ] a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from ...

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A rosette is a rose -like marking or formation found on the fur and skin of some animals, particularly cats . Rosettes are used to camouflage the animal, either as a defense mechanism or as a stalking tool. Predators use their rosettes to simulate the different ...

Usage examples of rosette.

Around a cluster of stars called the Blastula Luz, I prepared my long passage to the Rosette Nebula in the Orion Arm.

It was almost unbearable to turn away from the mass of students streaming out into the sunshine, all of them wearing rosettes and hats and brandishing banners and scarves, to descend the stone steps into the dungeons and walk until the distant sounds of the crowd were quite obliterated, knowing that he would not be able to hear a word of commentary or a cheer or groan.

Neither pere Lenegre, nor petite maman, nor Rosette could speak just then, for tears were choking them, but anon when milor stood nearer, petite maman knelt down, and, imprisoning his slender hand in her brown, wrinkled ones, she kissed it reverently.

The flotilla, commanded by the brave chief of division Perree, had just arrived from Rosette.

Lowe, she could be less easily asked to Xerox sheet music or chauffeur stranded members, or bake cakes for Sales or sew concert robes or create nametags or centerpieces or otherwise be volunteered to perform those time-consuming and innately female tasks which prettified or cushioned or diverted, which perhaps might even be said to civilize, but really, these days it hardly seemed important to her to spend several evenings making fifty holiday ribbon nametag rosettes to hand out to the audience at the Restport Nursing Home concert.

Fan-vaulting arced to the ceiling, the spreading ribs of the fans blossoming into carved tracery, while the ceiling surface between the vaults was closely decorated with scalloped rosettes.

Its soft dull or greyish-green rosettes are in marked contrast with the rigid and shining sempervivums, in the company of which it is frequently placed.

Still excessively abundant, it was dressed in a manner of which the poor lady appeared not yet to have recognised the supersession, with a glossy braid, like a large diadem, on the top of the head, and behind, at the nape of the neck, a dingy rosette like a large button.

Her fingers tightened in mine, but I drew them forcibly again to my cock, which was beginning to show signs of new life, thanks to all this philosophical discussion whilst in the nude, and I confess that seeing her naked on the couch, clad only in those delicious and naughty black hose with their provocative rosettes to hold them firm and unwrinkled to her lovely legs, was even more whetting to my lustful appetites than all the philosophy of heaven and hell combined.

Fashioned of brilliant green silk, the hem was caught up with rosettes to reveal a dauntingly feminine froth of petticoats.

The rosette of dots jumped in its egg-shaped orbit around the moon, moving clockwise.

No, I have no quatrefoils, rosettes, gussets, gargoyles or Mexican drawnwork on my house, not even a caryatid.

Lord Robley commanded that his hotblooded hunter also should have his mane done up in stubby ribboned braids and rosettes in the Auberon colors, and the horses of his retinue likewise, though with lesser rosettes.

Eliste glimpsed silk flowers, rosettes and cockades, laces, scallop-edged ribbons, jewelled buckles and buttons, fringes and silken tassels, feathers and curly plumes in every colour.

Along the way, Roads passed cyclists and pedestrians enjoying the first few minutes of the new day, while occasional flashes of light reflecting off Rosette cabs gliding along active tracks highlighted the movement of people on their way to or from work.