frou-frou vs rose

frou-frou

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

adj
  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

rose

noun
  • Something resembling a rose flower. 

  • A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. 

  • The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended. 

  • A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose. 

  • A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) 

  • Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta. 

  • Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares. 

  • A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers. 

  • The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed. 

  • A flower of the rose plant. 

  • A graph with only one vertex. 

adj
  • Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy. 

verb
  • To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. 

  • To perfume, as with roses. 

  • simple past tense of rise 

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