单词 | rosebud |
释义 | rosebudn. 1. The bud of a rose; the flower of a rose before it opens. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > rosebud rosebuda1543 a1543 in A. Amherst Hist. Gardening in Eng. (1896) 76 (MED) Herbes for a Salade..Prime Rose buddus. 1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. v. f. 67 Like to the Rose budde at the firste, whiche after with the heate of the Sunne waxe perfite redde. 1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. ii. 8 Let vs crowne our selues with Rose buds . View more context for this quotation 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 6 Such a Pearle as this is..The Rose buds sweet lip kisses. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 49 The parted Lip, Like the red Rose-Bud moist with morning Dew. 1773 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 129 The rose-tree..was covered with leaves and rose-buds. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 33 Her..mouth, like the wet rose-bud, was brimful of something like poetry. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ii. 43 Rosebuds reddening where the calyx split. 1903 Econ. Jrnl. 13 126 Whilst an English flower-maker is expected to make any flower, a Frenchwoman makes rose petals only, or rose buds, and nothing else. 1953 D. W. Baruch How to live with your Teen-ager xi. 174 And the white wallpaper with the pink rosebuds on it. The most girly-girl room I ever saw! 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 208 Crowned round with pink rosebuds and mignonette. 2. a. A pretty young woman; also as a term of endearment. Cf. bud n.1 3b. Now chiefly archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > prettiness > specifically of woman > pretty girl or woman primerolea1350 jolyvet1413 prim1509 nicebeceturc1520 bit of stuff?1553 nicebice1595 dabchick1612 rosebud1668 doll1778 living doll1785 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 a bit (also piece) of all right1895 bit of fluff1903 dolly1906 baby doll1908 cutiea1911 cutie-pie1920 kewpie1946 tchotchke1968 tchotchkeleh1985 1668 J. Dryden Secret-love iv. 36 And young Sabina, so sweet an innocence, Such a Rose-bud newly blown. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation 6 A very forward Rose-bud: you open apace, Gentlewoman. 1788 R. Burns Let. 3 Mar. (1985) I. 249 My best, kindest Compliments to my worthy Hostess and the sweet little Rose-bud. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 224 Beauteous rose-bud, young and gay, Blooming on thy early May. 1807 Salmagundi 25 Apr. 185 Two sister nymphs,..Twin rosebuds bursting into bloom. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. vi. 97 My fair rose-bud—A trifle over-blown, but not less sweet—I have been pining for you. 1920 R. D. Paine Ships across Sea 12 A Highland rosebud like you ought to grow up in the country. 1985 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 183/2 It was, my little rosebud, and if you weren't quite so big, it would be time for Mr and Mrs Spank to pay a short sharp trip to Bottieland. 2007 K. Lobe French Trysts 236 You are a little vixen, my rosebud. b. U.S. A debutante. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > female > débutante débutante1801 rosebud1856 sub-debutante1887 sub-deb1916 deb1920 1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 22 Aug. 2/3 The ‘Rosebud Party,’..called by that melodious title because the assemblage was composed of young girls only. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 544/2 The girls have gone to a ‘rose-bud’ dinner. 1890 Cent. Mag. Aug. 582 They flutter their brief hour in society... Some of them hold on like grim death to rosebud privileges. 1937 Washington Post 20 Sept. 10/1 On your toes—get set pretty—you debutantes! Your season is on! From now until December 31 it will be rosebuds all the way. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 June 608/1 He married..a college beauty queen (a ‘Rosebud’ of 1922). 2009 S. McBride Debs 2 During their debutante year, all Rosebuds must dress appropriately..with no visible tattoos or piercings. c. With capital initial(s). A member of the junior section of the Girl Guides Association, now called a ‘Brownie’ (see brownie n.1 2). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides Boy Scout1908 patrol leader1908 scout1908 scoutmaster1908 tenderfoot1908 captain1909 Girl Guide1909 Girl Scout1909 lieutenant1909 pathfinder1911 sea scout1911 rosebud1914 brownie1916 sixer1916 tenderpad1916 Brown Owl1918 rover1918 Rover Scout1918 ranger1920 tawny owl1921 Cub1922 Akela1924 scouter1930 Guider1931 den mother1936 Queen's Guide1946 Queen's Scout1952 Venture Scout1966 Beaver1975 skipper1986 1914 A. 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. 1915 Girl Guides' Gaz. Jan. 15/2 Our ‘Rosebuds’ are growing rapidly in numbers..but we hear they are dissatisfied with their name. 1973 New Society 27 Sept. 755/2 Brownies were started in 1910 by Baden-Powell's sister, under the name of Rosebuds. 2007 Evening News (Norwich) (Nexis) 8 Mar. They called themselves Rosebuds and were later renamed Brownies. 3. Any of various small seashells of a pink or partly pink colour, typically of the family Muricidae (cf. murex n. 1). Also rosebud murex, rosebud shell. Now rare.In quot. 1815: an Indo-Pacific sea slug, Hydatina amplustre, with a pink and white striped shell. The shells referred to in later quots. have not been identified. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell seashella900 shale1561 buckie1596 caracol1622 valve1661 spire1681 umbilicus1688 conch-shell1697 wart-shell?1711 needle1713 multivalve1753 concha1755 periosteum1758 conch1773 devil's claw1773 furbelow1776 peewit's egg1776 worm-tube1776 rosebud1815 sheath1815 periostracum1833 epicuticle1885 epicuticula1886 leg of mutton1891 trivalve1891 1815 S. Brookes Introd. Study Conchol. 156/2 Rose Bud. Bulla Amplustra. 1839 G. B. Sowerby Conchol. Man. 67 The Rosebud Murex with its pink-tipt fringes. 1852 W. B. Jerrold How to see Brit. Mus. in Four Visits i. 58 The next table (22) displays the shell of the curious carrier,..the slipper shell, and the rose bud. 1883 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 12 433 (table) Murex (? palma-rosæ)... Rose-bud shell. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister (1895) 242 The lady teachers wandered about and..explored with their classes the great shell-heaps for ‘rosebuds’ and ‘legs of mutton’. 1941 H. Cochran Buccaneer Islands 71 Occasionally they found tiny pink ‘rose-bud’ shells and another smaller kind which Clare called ‘green peas’. 4. With capital initial. Something likened to the ‘Rosebud’ of Citizen Kane in being an enigmatic clue which provides revelatory insight into a person's character. [With allusion to the last word spoken by the dying Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles, the meaning of which is believed to hold the key to understanding Kane's past, and which is revealed to be the name of a toboggan he owned as a child.] ΚΠ 1971 N.Y. Mag. 1 Feb. 40/2 Some friends suggest that the glasses are the key to the man, that they are his Rosebud. 1982 R. Rosenbaum in New Republic 23 June 16/1 What was the mysterious ‘red box’ the President keeps harping on... Could this be a childhood toy—Nixon's Rosebud? 1998 Esquire Mar. 64/1 Not the lie about his death but the lie about death that he was told as a child, a transformative lie, one of two Rosebud moments in the newly unearthed Andy tapes. 2006 New Yorker 29 May 60/3 But if there is a Rosebud in the diaries—a key that unlocks Meinertzhagen's motives—I didn't find it. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. ΚΠ a1745 T. Warton Poems Several Occasions (1748) 93 A Rose-bud Garland on her Locks she wears. 1866 A. M. H. Brewster St. Martin's Summer 334 The discords that will be made by some horrid chemical-blue gown passing near Venitia's delicate sea-foam, or Pompadour pink clashing against Florence's rose-bud hue. 1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium x. 291 ‘She'll blarney me into consenting to blue-and-pink rosebud paper in my bedroom.’ 2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 160 Rosebud-print silk bralette, $348. b. Similative, with the sense ‘resembling a rosebud’, as rosebud lips, rosebud mouth. ΚΠ ?1798 ‘P. Pindar’ Tales of Hoy 38 Her rosebud-lips expanded with a smile. 1806 R. Hunter Lady Maclairn III. xxxix. 108 Willing to spare the further distension of her rosebud mouth. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 746 The rose-bud lips, slightly apart. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street i. 7 She had..a rosebud mouth with petulant corners. 1983 A. Walker In Search of our Mothers' Gardens 296 Tall and fair, with hair of a golden cast, aquiline nose, rosebud mouth, soft brown eyes veiled by long, dark lashes. 2007 Grazia 9 July 99 My favourite evening beauty look right now is smoky eyes with rosebud lips. C2. rosebud nail n. rare a type of nail resembling a rosebud in some way (perhaps = rose nail n.). ΚΠ 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Rose-bud Nails, are small round-headed nails, driven in the centre of the roses of the plates. 2000 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 14 Oct. d2 The top of the table has square rosebud nails. Derivatives ˈrosebud-like adj. ΚΠ 1870 Med. News July 100/2 The rosebud-like projection to be felt in the rectum. 1890 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe v Her rosebud-like beauty. 1911 G. W. Sargent Grand Master's Treasure ii. iv. 127 Her lips, rosebud-like unfolding, smiled at him. 1997 T. Martin Window Boxes vii. 86 The rose-bud like flowers are produced in quantity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1543 |
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