rosmarine en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) Dew from the sea.
That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine.
1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness:
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(obsolete, uncountable) Rosemary.
biting on anise-seed and rose-marine
1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline, / Cold lettuce, and refreshing rosmarine
1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC: