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rosarian|rəʊˈzɛərɪən|
[f. L. rosāri-um (see rosary) + -an.]
1. One who is interested in the cultivation of roses; esp. an amateur rose-grower.
1864Hibberd Rose Book 12 To furnish the rosarian with an intelligible key to the catalogues [of roses]. 1882Garden 25 Feb. 132/3, I have no doubt many rosarians..have found swarms of the black ants on the top of Rose buds.
2. R.C. Ch. A member of a Confraternity of the Rosary.
1867R. Palmer Life P. Howard 40 note, The Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, called ‘Rosarians’. 1871–2Rosarian I. 378 A Rosarian asks prayers for the conversion of her three brothers. |