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rose noble
[f. rose n. + noble n.1 2.]
1. A gold coin current in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, being a variety of the noble with the figure of a rose stamped upon it, and of varying value at different times and places. Obs. exc. Hist.
1473Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 64 A Franche croune and half a ross noble. 1488Ibid. 90 Takin..the saim tyme, viij royse nobillis. 1494Halyburton Ledger 51 A fardyn of a ros nobyll, price 3s. 4½g. 1507Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 434 Thai prisit..the weicht of the Rose noble till tua merkis. 1553Extr. Rec. Edinb. (1871) 274 Gevin to the provest for the wyld aventurs,..ane ross noble, iijli viijs. 1589Wotton Lett. (1907) I. 235 In receiving my money at Stoade I took rose nobles after 20s. 4d. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. A 3, [The French] have thought to disgrace his whole storie, by calling him a Pensioner of England, and a man hired to write by the good Rose-nobles of England. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 29/1 The Rose Noble..is also termed the Rose Royal, or the Royal of England. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4748/4 A Queen Elizabeth's Piece of 35s. 3 Rose Nobles. 1726–31Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. (1743) II. xvii. 157 The double Rose-Noble, or Rose-Rial, which is a noble Medal. 1820Scott Monast. xxix, The knight cut short his argument, by throwing the landlord a rose-noble. 1853Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. II. 449 There was also the old noble, now called the ‘rose noble’, to distinguish it from the George noble which had been newly issued. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xli, There were Rose Nobles of Edward IV.
transf.1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. iv, Capt. Philaster. Cry my Rose nobles, cry. All. Philaster.
attrib.a1668Davenant Man's the Master Epil., You men with bright rose-noble hair. 1695in J. W. Drayton's Heroical Ep. A iv, All is Standard, all Rose-noble Gold.
2. dial. or local.
a. The hound's tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
b. The figwort, esp. the knotted figwort (Scrophularia nodosa).
1876–in Britten & Holland Eng. Plant-names. 1877Hardwicke's Science Gossip 46/1 Scrophularia nodosa is known by the name of ‘rose-noble’. 1900A. McIlroy Craiglinnie Burn ix, Salutary herbs, such as rosenoble, dandelion,..and hoarhound. |