Rosette

Quick meaning: Rosette is a noun meaning (architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.

Meaning

(architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.

More Meanings

1. An imitation of a rose made of ribbon or other material, worn as an ornament or symbol, especially:
2. (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
3. A red color.
4. A rose burner.
5. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
6. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

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].

Word Forms

• rosettes
• roset

Synonyms for rosette

Depending on context, synonyms include roset, rosetta, rondelle, worm-star.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anus, bow, roset, roseling, rouleau, rosemaling.

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