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a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. D3 The roses of the windes or pointes of the compasse.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course x. f. 111 The inuention of the Sea-mans compas, consisting of a Rose, and a needle of steele.

1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. II. 373/1 The 32 lines in the rose or card of the compass.

1858 Canad. Jrnl. Industry Sci. & Art 3 72 The diagrams representing the winds for each month, for the half year and year, are plotted upon the compass rose, and show the quantities of wind.

1889 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 21 169 The cobweb lines drawn all over the surface radially converge toward a system of rectangularly distributed centres, each of these being made conspicuous by the effigy of a compass-rose.

1919 S. F. Card Air Navigation ii. 11 When the chart or map contains the true and magnetic ‘roses’..the conversion can be done by putting a straight edge from the centre to the true direction.

1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali iv. 76 The Nawa Sangga, the magic rose of the winds, the Balinese cardinal directions.

1960 E. L. Delmar-Morgan Cruising Yacht Equipm. & Navigation ii. 30 The dial or, as we call it these days, Pelorus or dummy compass rose, was the navigator's instrument and was in use for many centuries long before it was given magnets and mounted on a pivot.

1977 M. Helprin Refiner's Fire vii. xix. 230 A compass rose, projective lines, and the assurant grid of Mercator pulsed in high-frequency yellow.

2002 Hist. Today May 20 (caption) An outstanding portolan chart of Europe and the Mediterranean by Diego Homen (1558). It contains most of the stylistic features of the genre: compass roses, rhumb lines and wind heads.