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roseate [roe-zee-ate] Adjective 1. of the colour rose or pink 2. excessively optimistic
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But this programme was not to be begun before evening - not till just before dinner, indeed, at which meal the reassembled family were to sit roseate, and the best wine, the modern fatted calf, should flow for the prodigal's return. For instance, it says that one may have many, many fancies, my Barbara--that as soon as the spring comes on, one's thoughts become uniformly pleasant and sportive and witty, for the reason that, at that season, the mind inclines readily to tenderness, and the world takes on a more roseate hue. The whole woods seemed tinged with a roseate hue, since Marian had come again. |
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roseate - of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"
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