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In Spain the 3 kings cake is called roscón, and is a ring/wreath of sweet dough, sliced in half and filled with whipped cream.
Epiphany: You Matter Fresca 2010
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The translation of the remainder of the _rosc_ is largely conjectural.
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Testament, was known to the native Irish scholars as _rosc_ and it is usually marked in the manuscripts by the abbreviation _R_.
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The so-called rhetorics are omitted in translating; they are passages known in Irish as _rosc_, often partly alliterative, but not measured.
Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday
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This is especially true of the passages in _rosc_, which are fortunately not numerous and which were probably intentionally made as obscure and allusive as possible, the object being, perhaps, as much the music of the words as the sense.
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The lovely violet's azure-painted head Adds lustre to the crimson-blushing rosc.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Gaelic rosc (alternating with rasg) means ` eyelid 'and
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[c] Fergus 'answer, eight lines in _rosc_, LU. page 61, note 7, edition of Strachan and O'Keeffe (these lines are not in YBL.), has been omitted in the translation.
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[b] Here follow six lines in _rosc_, LU. 1692-1697, edition of Strachan and O'Keeffe (the passage does not occur in YBL.), of uncertain meaning; they are omitted in the translation.
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[a] Here follows in YBL. 51b, 38-57 a difficult passage in _rosc_ which
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