English edit

Etymology edit

rose +‎ drop

Noun edit

rosedrop (plural rosedrops)

  1. A rose-flavoured lozenge.
  2. A kind of earring.[1]
  3. (medicine) A ruddy eruption on the nose caused by drinking; a grog-blossom.

References edit

  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rosedrop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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