rosette

Borrowed from Middle French rosette (in sense 15) and (modern) French rosette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈzɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈzɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

rosette (plural rosettes)

1. (architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.
   1. (architecture, now uncommon) A rose window.
2. An imitation of a rose made of ribbon or other material, worn as an ornament or symbol, especially:
   1. A rose-shaped arrangement awarded as a prize won in a competition (e.g., a horse show).
   2. A rose-shaped badge of support or membership (e.g., of a political party).
   3. A small rose-shaped ornament worn as a symbol of an honorific order or military decoration, typically presented with a medal or in place of a medal (e.g., as a lapel button).
3. (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
4. A red color.

   Synonym: roset

5. A rose burner.
6. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
7. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
8. (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
9. (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
10. A floral pattern in latte art.

    Synonym: rosetta

11. (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
12. (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
13. (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
14. A form of knot.
16. A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal. [from 1609]^[1]

    Synonym: rondelle

    • [1609, [Marc Lescarbot], translated by P[ierre] Erondelle, “The leauing of Port du Moutton: […]”, in Noua Francia: Or The Description of That Part of Neuu France, Which Is One Continent with Virginia. […], London: […] Georgii Bishop, page 13:

      It is a high rocke betweene two Bayes of the Sea, wherein the Copper is conioyned with the ſtone, very faire and very pure, ſuch as is that which is called Rozette Copper [translating cuivre de rozette].]

17. (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
18. (pathology) Synonym of worm-star.

• rose

• “rosette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• tetrose

From Middle French rosette, from Old French rosete, from rose + -ete. By surface analysis, rose +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /ʁo.zɛt/

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rosette f (plural rosettes)

1. rosette (most senses)
2. a french saucisson originating from Lyon
3. the rosy footman
4. an insignia worn by officers of the Légion d'Honneur

• → Polish: rozeta
• → Turkish: rozet

• “rosette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tétrose

rosette f

1. plural of rosetta

• estorte, resetto, resettò, setterò, settore, testerò, testore

• rosete

From Old French rosete, from rose + -ete. By surface analysis, rose +‎ -ette.

rosette f (plural rosettes)

1. diminutive of rose
2. rosette (ornamental imitation of a rose)
3. red spot

• French: rosette
• → English: rosette

• rosette on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)