rosy
/ˈɹoʊzi/ verb C2- To make pinkish in colour.
- To present in a deceptively optimistic or positive light.
He/she/it rosies · Past rosied · Past participle rosied · -ing form rosying
Verb forms
- Base form
- rosy
- He/she/it
- rosies
- Past
- rosied
- Past participle
- rosied
- -ing form
- rosying
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Green and rosy painted,
She was a very pretty little girl, with her mother’s black eyes and hair, and rosy cheeks, and the merry expression which was her inheritance from her father.
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
Anne accordingly went to bed and slept so long and soundly that it was well on in the white and rosy winter afternoon when she awoke and descended to the kitchen where Marilla, who had arrived home in the meantime, was sitting knitting.
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