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couleur de rose en · ADJ

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French couleur de rose (literally “rose-coloured”).

Meanings

  1. (dated, not-comparable) Favourable; ideal.
    • […] lo! my enchantress appeared at the head of the room, and without her constant attendant, Lord Ryecourt, to whom I had an unutterable aversion. In an instant the mists vanished, and every thing appeared couleur de rose. 1823, Mammon in London; or, The spy of the day, page 199:
    • Everything seemed couleur de rose. I had a flat in the Champs Elysées, and I really think that those days were among the happiest that I ever spent: certainly they were among the most inconsequent. 1925, Nellie Melba, Melodies and Memories, page 87:

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