rosettes

[roh-zet]

ro·sette

[roh-zet]
noun
1.
any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
2.
a rose-shaped arrangement of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament or badge.
3.
Also, rosace. an architectural ornament resembling a rose or having a generally circular combination of parts.
4.
Botany. a circular cluster of leaves or other organs.
5.
a broad ornamental head for a screw or nail.
EXPAND
6.
Metallurgy.
a.
any of a number of disks of refined copper formed when cold water is thrown onto the molten metal.
b.
a rounded microconstituent of certain alloys.
7.
Plant Pathology. any of several diseases of plants, characterized by the crowding of the foliage into circular clusters owing to a shortening of the internodes of stems or branches, caused by fungi, viruses, or nutritional deficiencies.
8.
one of the compound spots on a leopard.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1780–90; < French: little rose, Old French. See rose1, -ette

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Rosettes is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Ro·sette

[roh-zet]
noun
a female given name.
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