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ˈrosebud
Also rose-bud.
[f. rose n.]
1. The bud of a rose; the flower of a rose before it opens. Also fig.
1611Bible Wisd. ii. 8 Let vs crowne our selues with Rose buds. 1647Crashaw Steps to Temple, Tear iv, Such a Pearle as this is..The Rose buds sweet lip kisses. 1727–46Thomson Summer 1587 The parted lip, Like the red-rose bud moist with morning-dew. 1773Phil. Trans. LXIII. 129 The rose-tree..was covered with leaves and rose-buds. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 33 Her..mouth, like the wet rose-bud, was brimful of something like poetry. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 12 Rosebuds reddening where the calyx split.
attrib.1798Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tales Hoy Wks. 1812 IV. 407 Her rosebud-lips expanded with a smile. 1890‘L. Falconer’ M'selle Ixe v, Her rosebud-like beauty.
2. transf.
a. A pretty maiden; a girl in the first bloom of womanhood; also as a term of endearment. Cf. bud n.1 3 b.
c1790Burns To Miss Cruikshank 1 Beauteous rose-bud, young and gay, Blooming on thy early May. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 162 Two sister nymphs,..Twin rose⁓buds bursting into bloom. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. vi, My fair rose-bud—A trifle over-blown, but not less sweet—I have been pining for you.
b. U.S. A débutante.
1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 544/2 The girls have gone to a ‘rose-bud’ dinner. 1890Cent. Mag. Aug. 582 They flutter their brief hour in society... Some of them hold on like grim death to rosebud privileges. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 1 June 608/1 He married..a college beauty queen (a ‘Rosebud’ of 1922).
†c. A member of the junior section of the Girl Guides Association, now called a ‘Brownie’ or ‘Brownie Guide’ (see Brownie1 2). Obs. exc. Hist.
1914A. Baden-Powell in Girl Guides' Gaz. June 2/1 The age at which a Rose Bud may join the Baden-Powell Girl Guides is eight years. 1914O. Baden-Powell in Ibid. July 3/1, I am so glad to hear that some of you are taking up the work of training Rosebuds, to follow in your footsteps. 1915Girl Guides' Gaz. Jan. 15/2 Our ‘Rosebuds’ are growing rapidly in numbers..but we hear they are dissatisfied with their name. Ibid. June 3/2 (heading) Rosebuds or Brownies? 1973New Society 27 Sept. 755/2 Brownies were started in 1910 by Baden-Powell's sister, under the name of Rosebuds.
3. rosebud-nail: (see quot.).
1802James Milit. Dict., Rose-bud Nails, are small round-headed nails, driven in the centre of the roses of the plates.
4. Sc. Some kind of small sea-shell.
1893Crockett Stickit Minister (1895) 242 The lady teachers wandered about and..explored with their classes the great shell-heaps for ‘rosebuds’ and ‘legs of mutton’. |