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rosette

ruh set

  • n  an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
  • n  rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
  • n  a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
  • n  circular window filled with tracery

  • She took a piebald named Jester over the jumps to win a red rosette (winning team) in the combined competition, picked up yellow (tie third) in junior dressage.
  • The bronze surfaces are intricately designed for the play of lightwound copper bracelets, brazen armor and engraved rosette backgrounds, which set off the bold, stubby torsos of .
  • A rosette from the same ceiling, much reduced and done in silver gilt, has become a brooch (50 pounds); half the same rosette, with chain and a small fake pearl, is a necklace (55 .
News & Articles

  • Students win cyber challenge
    Clinton Rosette Middle School students, from left, Stephanie Vazquez, Bryce Comer and Anan Ghrayeb, pictured with adviser Kelli Hamilton, took first place at the state level of a cyber competition that challenged students to create a technology that would make their community a better place.
    June 18, 2013 - The MidWeek
Quotes

  • Simon Cowell in Lancashire Evening Telegraph
    But Cowell said: "People who've won a rosette at a donkey derby don't go on to win the grand national, your daughter cannot sing."
  • Garrison Keillor in Collegenews.org
    Garrison Keillor wrote a warm eulogy to his fellow Minnesotan, including this McCarthy observation: "One thing about a pig. He thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's...
  • Katie Price in Mirror.co.uk
    Despite her score not counting as it was just a preliminary stage, Jordan said: "I really enjoyed it, I've got a rosette which is really good for me. I didn't come here to win it, I just wanted to participate and take part. It was a great crowd."

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