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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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