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rose-cheeked, a.
[f. rose n.]
1. Having ruddy or rose-coloured cheeks; rosy-cheeked.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. i, Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase. 1607― Timon iv. iii. 86 Bring downe Rose-cheekt youth to the Tubfast, and the Diet. 1642H. More Song Soul ii. App. xcix, Fair comely bodies, goodly beautifi'd, Snow-limb'd, rose-cheek'd. 1833Tennyson Miller's Dau. 133 Rosecheekt, roselipt, half-sly, half-shy, You would, and would not, little one.
2. Ornith. rose-cheeked kingfisher, an Ethiopian species, Ispidina picta.
1868–71R. B. Sharpe Monograph Alcedinidae 141. |