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rose-water

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rose-water
n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) (Cookery)
a.  scented water used as a perfume and in cooking, made by the distillation of rose petals or by impregnation with oil of roses
b.  (as modifier) rose-water scent
2. (modifier) elegant or delicate, esp excessively so


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The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up --flaked up, with rose-water snow.
When we were quite composed, and Dora had gone up-stairs to put some rose-water to her eyes, Miss Mills rang for tea.
He applied a taper to the great bowl, and the smoke bubbled merrily through the rose-water.
 
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