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sub ro·sa

 (rō′zə)
adv.
In secret; privately or confidentially: held the meeting sub rosa.

[Latin sub rosā, under the rose (from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of confidentiality) : sub, under + rosā, ablative of rosa, rose.]

sub-ro′sa (səb-rō′zə) adj.
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sub rosa

(ˈrəʊzə)
adv
in secret
[Latin, literally: under the rose; from the rose that, in ancient times, was hung over the council table, as a token of secrecy]
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sub ro•sa

(sʌb ˈroʊ zə)
adv.
confidentially; secretly; privately.
[1920–25; < Latin: literally, under the rose, from the ancient use of the rose at meetings as a symbol of the sworn confidence of the participants]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.sub rosa - in secret or covertly; "held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism"
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sub rosa

adverb
In a secret way:
Idioms: by stealth, on the sly, under cover.
adjectivesub-rosa
Existing or operating in a way so as to ensure complete concealment and confidentiality:
Informal: hush-hush.
Idiom: under wraps.
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Translations

sub rosa

[ˈsʌbˈrəʊzə]
A. ADJsecreto, de confianza
B. ADVen secreto, en confianza
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There is merit to the suggestion that Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) interviews be sub rosa when unresolved policy questions are injected into the equation.
But, for a good few, fearless writing never really stopped completely during those dangerous times, though much of it done sub rosa or in the so-called 'mosquito press,' sometimes called alternative or underground press.
Racism that once may have remained politely sub rosa, a kind of muted theme in everyday life, has risen again to the surface, a blatant affront to human dignity and all that is decent.
"This slice of personal nostalgia isn't really enough to make this logo meaningful to others, and frankly, I think there might be more to the story," said Michael Ventura, founder and CEO of strategy and design consultancy Sub Rosa. "I'm not a fashion designer, but I have always found Versace's work to be 'sexy ugly'--using garish patterns and loud, borderline obnoxious color combinations to make something of beauty.
Take me, I am the drug of your morning, the bees knees endlessly buzzing--that hum under your tongue, sub rosa, tabula rasa.
"And if you enter a place na hindi naman kayo kilala [where you are not known], keep a sub rosa style of movement," he said.
That I was unaware of this back then--although Artforum's offices, where I worked at the time, were just across the street from the gallery, and Rene wrote for the magazine and was often around-suggests a kind of sub rosa life the space had, a place in the daily routines of a distinct self-defined culture.
This brings us to the so-called "sub rosa sales," a variation of [section] 363 sales.
This is an overt use of courts to drag more of the public business back into the shadows and enforce a type of sub rosa censorship.
She has also been active as a director and a composer herself, and she has recorded the premiere of the complete Cage's Songbooks for Sub Rosa on CD, as well as Frederic Acquaviva's Aatie on CD/DVD.
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