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- noun Alternative spelling of
rose petal .
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Examples
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Like a rose-petal, he thought; cool and soft as a snowflake.
Chapter 4 2010
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Gently perfumed with rose-petal and raspberry, it needs food to soften the firm but refined tannins and pronounced acidity.
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Lump in throat, I pluck a rose-petal from an old bush growing at the front, a bush that my grandmother planted, long ago.
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Five hundred pounds of rose-petal confetti, ticker tape, and punch cards fell from the top floors of the buildings.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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Mae sat down on the bed with the red duvet and watched as Sin twisted her dark hair up in a knot and splashed her face with the rose-petal water.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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Stew is no rose-petal memoirist; he looks back with a healthy appreciation of hypocrisy.
'Passing Strange' at Studio 2ndStage: A tasty musical treat, even without Stew 2010
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Unlike many Gewurztraminers, the rose-petal quality isn't overpowering here, on the nose or on the palate.
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Mae sat down on the bed with the red duvet and watched as Sin twisted her dark hair up in a knot and splashed her face with the rose-petal water.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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Unlike many Gewurztraminers, the rose-petal quality isn't overpowering here, on the nose or on the palate.
LENNDEVOURS: 2008
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Fortunately everyone just let me get on with making rose-petal tea in the garden for the resident fairies.
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