Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of hay-fever developing early in the summer. Also called rose-catarrh, rose-fever.
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Examples
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Nothing is so unhealthy as a damp napkin; it causes agony to a delicate and nervous lady, a man with the rose-cold, a person with neuralgia or rheumatism, and is offensive to every one.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Auntie has been expecting you at home for weeks, you know, but when Mabel's rose-cold developed she decided that we must go to the seashore, even though we did die of lonesomeness.
Quaint Courtships William Dean Howells 1878
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One could hardly imagine how even so aristocratic a malady as a rose-cold could have dared to redden slightly the tip of that classic nose.
Quaint Courtships William Dean Howells 1878
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In old times who ever heard of dyspepsia, cerebro-spinal meningitis, hay-fever, and rose-cold?
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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