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Rosemary   /rˈoʊzmˌɛri/   Listen
noun
Rosemary  n.  A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."
Marsh rosemary.
(a)
A little shrub (Andromeda polifolia) growing in cold swamps and having leaves like those of the rosemary.
(b)
See under Marsh.
Rosemary pine, the loblolly pine. See under Loblolly.






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"Rosemary" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rosemary," returned the plump girl. "You're such a quaint little body, you're a regular treat. I declare I ain't 'alf sure I wouldn't rather talk to you, than read the Princess Novelettes. Besides, I do get that tired of 'earin' nothin' but French, I'm most sorry I undertook the job; and the Biby don't ...
— Rosemary - A Christmas story • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... coarses, for I meet few but are stuck with Rosemary. Every one asked me who was married today, and I told them Adultery and Repentance, and that Shame and a Hangman followed ...
— The Noble Spanish Soldier • Thomas Dekker

... mountain like a garment. This was the "Maquis," composed of scrub oak, juniper, arbutus, mastic, privet, gorse, laurel, myrtle and boxwood, intertwined with clematis, huge ferns, honeysuckle, cytisus, rosemary, lavender and brambles, which covered the sides of the mountain with ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... species of Bossiaea which had the appearance of a rosemary bush, and differed from all the published kinds in having linear ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell

... kissed the woman, and buried the three baskets as she desired in the palace garden beneath three wide-spreading rosemary bushes. ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai


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