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rosebud [rohz-buhd] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of rosebud First recorded in 1605–15; rose1 + bud1 Examples from the Web for rosebud Contemporary Examples of rosebud
“The ‘Rosebud’ moment was realizing how we would only know whether that ‘future’ was true when the future was history,” she said.
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Bauer literally had a Rosebud moment, but may not have had a figurative one.
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Decades later, an Ailes colleague called the incident “his Rosebud story.”
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When the snow-filled glasses falls from his hand and he says, “Rosebud.”
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Historical Examples of rosebud
She remembers, to his advantage, his generosity to his Rosebud and his tenants.
Samuel Richardson
Emily’s face flushed like a rosebud when she laid them on the table.
Mary Martha Sherwood
The girl’s rosebud lips parted in a smile of wondering delight.
Robert Ames Bennet
I get my first rosebud and violets of this year from St. Helena’s Island to-day.
John Ruskin
I aimed a rosebud at her; it fell into the green water, and floated away.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864
Various
British Dictionary definitions for rosebud rosebud noun
- the bud of a rose
- literary a pretty young woman
Word Origin and History for rosebud n.
1610s, from rose (n.1) + bud (n.). Hence, “young girl in her first bloom, a debutante.”