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Rosʹalinde (3 syl.)

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The anagram of “Rose Danil” or “Rose Daniel,” with whom Spenser was in love, but the young lady married John Florio, lexicographer. In the Shepherdsʹ Calendar Rose is called “Rosalinde,” and Spenser calls himself “Colin Clout.” Shakespeare introduces John Florio in Love’s Labour’s Lost, under the imperfect anagram Holofernes (ʹHnes Floreo).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Roque
Roque Guinart
Roquelaure
Rory OMore
Ros-crana
Rosa (Salvator)
Rosabelle
Rosalia or St. Rosalie
Rosalind
Rosalinde
Rosaline
Rosamond (Fair)
Rosana
Rosary [the rose article]
Rosciad
Roscius
Rose
Rose
Rose
Rose (in Christian art)