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rosmarine en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Dew from the sea.
    • That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine. 1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness:
  2. (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: