单词 | rose-watered |
释义 | > as lemmasˈrose-watered ˈrose-watered adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] > of words or manners fairOE honeyed1435 glozed1509 fair-tongued1541 fine1568 smoothed1568 smoothinga1592 sugary1591 slicked1594 rose water1598 rose-watered1599 candied1604 soft1609 courtlya1616 smooth-faced1626 oileda1640 blandished1671 sugar1687 fair-spoken1704 smooth-tongued1761 silky1778 pill-gilded1822 blarneyfied1830 greasy1848 blarneyed1861 soothering1866 soothing-syrupy1902 1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. A5v Smelling rose-waterd odoriferous Poses, Pleasing my mistris with a Mermaides song. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iv. sig. D8 Mellfluuius, sweete Rose-watred elloquence. 1722 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry II. 199 La Poire rose, i.e. the Rose Pear,..has a Rose-water'd Juice, and is very good. 1876 R. F. Burton in I. Burton Life R. F. Burton (1893) II. 72 My language is not rose-watered. 1905 H. F. Hall Napoleon's Notes on Eng. Hist. iv. 326 After a twelve years' course of Cromwell and civil anarchy, the country wanted a few doses of rose- watered imagination very badly. 2004 K. S. Rothwell Shakespeare on Screen (ed. 2) vi. 125 The sensuous symbols and images from the Induction, the scented bedchamber and the rose-watered bath, for example, are linked with Petruchio. < as lemmas |
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