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Roset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A red color used by painters.

Roset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A red color used by painters.

Rosetta Encyclopedia Britannica

ROSETTA (see Egypt, vol. vii. p. 768). The celebrated Rosetta Stone, a basalt stele containing a decree of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek, which supplied the key for the decipherment of the ancient monuments of Egypt, was found near Fort St Julien, 4 miles north of the town, in 1799, by Boussard, a French officer. It is now in the British Museum.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 851
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Rosetta wood Webster's Dictionary 1913

An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork.

Rosette [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

2. An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.

3. A red color. See Roset.

4. A rose burner. See under Rose.

5. Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.

6. A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.