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WORD FOR THE DAY(6/18/18)Roseate
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Posted on 06/18/2018 5:14:57 PM PDT by left that other site
WORD FOR THE DAY(6/18/18)Roseate
Word of the Day : May 28th, 2018
Roseate
adjective ROH-zee-ut
Definition
1 : resembling a rose especially in color
2 : overly optimistic : viewed favorably
Did You Know?
"Everything's coming up roses." "He views the world through rose-tinted glasses." "She has a rosy outlook on life." In English, we tend to associate roses and rose color with optimism, and roseate is no exception. Roseate comes from the Latin adjective roseus, and ultimately from the noun rosa, meaning "rose." Figurative use of roseate (with the meaning "happy" or "smiling") began in the 18th century, but the literal sense of the term has been in the language since the 15th century. It's especially well-suited to literary descriptions of sunrises and sunsets: "through yon peaks of cloud-like snow / The roseate sunlight quivers," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in Prometheus Unbound. And in an early short story, Edith Wharton wrote, "The sunset was perfect and a roseate light, transfiguring the distant spire, lingered late in the west."
Examples "Sometimes mistaken for a flamingo, the roseate spoonbill has lots of pink shades that can fool you." — Lyle Johnson, The Gonzales Weekly Citizen (Ascension, Louisiana), 26 Apr. 2018 "… the Catalan channels, richly funded by the local parliament and putting nationalist devotees in charge, has created a roseate picture of independence that simply doesn't fit the facts." — Peter Preston, The Observer (London), 10 Dec. 2017
TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: roseate; wftd; wordfortheday
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
MY ENTRY: When faced with a roseate future for America, liberals emulate Morticia Addams and snip off the blooms to admire the thorns.
To: secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; theDentist; ...
Late again. Sorry.
I am in the middle of building a new roof over my head, so there you go.
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posted on
06/18/2018 5:16:19 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
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posted on
06/18/2018 5:53:03 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: left that other site
The demonic-rat roseate view of the oncoming election is going to lead them to much anger.
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posted on
06/18/2018 6:07:38 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
06/18/2018 6:33:20 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: mountainlion
Oh yeah...they are in for a surprise!
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posted on
06/18/2018 6:37:01 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
Well, we knows what she tweeted, but we don’t what Rosieate.
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posted on
06/18/2018 6:58:45 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: left that other site
Oh yeah...they are in for a surprise!
It might be a good time to buy some antidepressant stocks.
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posted on
06/18/2018 7:24:07 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: left that other site
I live in South Florida and saw a Roseate Spoonbill the other day.
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posted on
06/18/2018 7:54:19 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(-)
To: Robert A Cook PE
Where is Rosie lately? Not that I miss her. Not at all.
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posted on
06/19/2018 5:53:51 AM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: mountainlion
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posted on
06/19/2018 5:54:22 AM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: Rembrandt
I used to live there too...the birds are amazing! :-)
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posted on
06/19/2018 5:55:10 AM PDT
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(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
We would have been here earlier, but Roseate the car keys................
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:04:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: left that other site
I brought a dozen donuts to breakfast at the O’Donnell’s. I ate one and roseate eleven.
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posted on
06/21/2018 6:50:37 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Vladimir is just Put in on a show for his followers.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I don’t doubt it one bit! :-)
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posted on
06/21/2018 7:20:48 AM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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