Posted on 06/18/2018 5:14:57 PM PDT by left that other site
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
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.
Late again. Sorry.
I am in the middle of building a new roof over my head, so there you go.
Unca Teddy’s nose?
LOL
Oh yeah...they are in for a surprise!
Well, we knows what she tweeted, but we don’t what Rosieate.
Oh yeah...they are in for a surprise!
It might be a good time to buy some antidepressant stocks.
I live in South Florida and saw a Roseate Spoonbill the other day.
Where is Rosie lately? Not that I miss her. Not at all.
Oooo Yeah!
I used to live there too...the birds are amazing! :-)
We would have been here earlier, but Roseate the car keys................
I brought a dozen donuts to breakfast at the ODonnells. I ate one and roseate eleven.
I don’t doubt it one bit! :-)
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