'Roseate' definitions:

Definition of 'roseate'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous]

Definition of 'Roseate'

From: GCIDE
  • Roseate \Ro"se*ate\, a. [Cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See Roseal, Rose.]
  • 1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. [1913 Webster]
  • Roseate tern (Zool.), an American and European tern (Sterna Dougalli) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season. [1913 Webster]

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