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rosemary
rosemary the aromatic leaves of rosemary are an emblem of remembrance, and are particulary associated with the words of Ophelia in Shakespeare' Hamlet, ‘There's rosemary for remembrance’.
In traditional belief, rosemary grows best in the garden of a woman who dominates her husband; it is also associated with the Virgin Mary on the Flight into Egypt (as in the story that on the way, having washed her clothes, she hung her blue robe on a rosemary bush to dry). The name is recorded from Middle English (in form rosmarine), and is based on Latin ros marinus ‘dew of the sea’; it was later understood as primarily associated with rose and Mary (for the Virgin). |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "rosemary." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "rosemary." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-rosemary.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "rosemary." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-rosemary.html |
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rosemary [ultimately from Lat.,=dew of the sea], widely cultivated evergreen and shrubby perennial ( Rosmarinus officinalis ) of the family Labiatae ( mint family), fairly hardy and native to the Mediterranean region. It has small light-blue flowers. The aromatic leaves, whitish beneath, are used for seasoning, and the oil is used in perfume and medicine. From ancient times rosemary has been regarded as a token of constancy and remembrance. In Hamlet (iv:5) Ophelia says, "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance." There is a prostrate variety. Rosemary is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Lamiales, family Labiatae. |
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"rosemary." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "rosemary." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-rosemary.html "rosemary." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-rosemary.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "rosemary." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "rosemary." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-rosemary.html T. F. HOAD. "rosemary." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-rosemary.html |
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rose·mar·y / ˈrōzˌmerē/ • n. an evergreen aromatic shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) of the mint family, native to southern Europe. The narrow leaves are used as a culinary herb, in perfumery, and as an emblem of remembrance. |
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"rosemary." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "rosemary." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-rosemary.html "rosemary." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-rosemary.html |
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rosemary Perennial evergreen herb of the mint family. It has small, needle-like leaf clusters of small pale-blue flowers. Sprigs of rosemary are commonly used as a flavouring. Family Lamiaceae/Labiatae; species Rosmarinus officinalis.
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"rosemary." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "rosemary." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-rosemary.html "rosemary." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-rosemary.html |
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Rosemary." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Rosemary." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Rosemary.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Rosemary." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Rosemary.html |
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rosemary A bushy shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, cultivated commercially for its essential oil, used in medicine and perfumery. The leaves are used to flavour soups, sauces and meat.
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DAVID A. BENDER. "rosemary." A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DAVID A. BENDER. "rosemary." A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O39-rosemary.html DAVID A. BENDER. "rosemary." A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O39-rosemary.html |
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rosemary •beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary
•Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary
•subsidiary
•auxiliary, ciliary, domiciliary
•apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery
•justiciary
•bestiary, vestiary
•breviary • aviary • hosiery
•diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry
•podiatry, psychiatry
•dowry, floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery
•brewery • jewellery (US jewelry)
•curie, de jure, fioriture, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Manipuri, Missouri, moory, Newry, tandoori, Urey
•statuary • actuary • sanctuary
•obituary • sumptuary • voluptuary
•January • electuary • ossuary
•mortuary
•Bradbury, Cadbury
•blackberry, hackberry
•cranberry • waxberry
•Barbary, barberry
•Shaftesbury • raspberry
•bayberry, blaeberry
•Avebury • Aylesbury • Sainsbury
•bilberry, tilbury
•bribery
•corroboree, jobbery, robbery, slobbery, snobbery
•dogberry • Roddenberry • Fosbury
•strawberry • Salisbury
•crowberry, snowberry
•chokeberry
•Rosebery, Shrewsbury
•blueberry, dewberry
•Dewsbury • Bloomsbury • gooseberry
•blubbery, rubbery, shrubbery
•Sudbury • mulberry • huckleberry
•Bunbury • husbandry • loganberry
•Canterbury • Glastonbury
•Burberry, turbary
•hatchery • archery
•lechery, treachery
•stitchery, witchery
•debauchery • butchery • camaraderie
•cindery, tindery
•industry • dromedary • lapidary
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•quandary • powdery • boundary
•bouldery • embroidery
•prudery, rudery
•do-goodery • shuddery • thundery
•prebendary • legendary • secondary
•amphorae • wafery
•midwifery, periphery
•infantry • housewifery • spoofery
•puffery • sulphury (US sulfury)
•Calgary
•beggary, Gregory
•vagary
•piggery, priggery, whiggery
•brigandry • bigotry • allegory
•vinegary • category • subcategory
•hoggery, toggery
•pettifoggery • demagoguery
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•buggery, skulduggery, snuggery, thuggery
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•usury • menagerie • pageantry
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•perjury, surgery
•microsurgery
•hackery, quackery, Thackeray, Zachary
•mountebankery • knick-knackery
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•crockery, mockery, rockery
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•cookery, crookery, rookery
•brusquerie
•puckery, succory
•cuckoldry
•calorie, gallery, Malory, salary, Valerie
•saddlery • balladry • gallantry
•kilocalorie • diablerie • chandlery
•harlotry • celery • pedlary
•exemplary
•helotry, zealotry
•nailery, raillery
•Tuileries
•ancillary, artillery, capillary, codicillary, distillery, fibrillary, fritillary, Hilary, maxillary, pillory
•mamillary • tutelary • corollary
•bardolatry, hagiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry
•cajolery, drollery
•foolery, tomfoolery
•constabulary, vocabulary
•scapulary • capitulary • formulary
•scullery • jugglery • cutlery
•chancellery • epistolary • burglary
•mammary • fragmentary
•passementerie • flimflammery
•armory, armoury, gendarmerie
•almonry
•emery, memory
•creamery • shimmery • primary
•rosemary • yeomanry
•parfumerie, perfumery
•flummery, Montgomery, mummery, summary, summery
•gossamery • customary • infirmary
•cannery, granary, tannery
•canonry
•antennary, bimillenary, millenary, venery
•tenantry • chicanery
•beanery, bicentenary, catenary, centenary, deanery, greenery, machinery, plenary, scenery, senary, septenary
•disciplinary, interdisciplinary
•hymnary • missionary
•ordinary, subordinary
•valetudinary • imaginary • millinery
•culinary • seminary • preliminary
•luminary • urinary • veterinary
•mercenary • sanguinary
•binary, finery, pinery, quinary, vinery, winery
•Connery • Conakry • ornery • joinery
•buffoonery, poltroonery, sublunary, superlunary
•gunnery, nunnery
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•exclusionary • legionary • pulmonary
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•concessionary, confessionary, discretionary
•confectionery, insurrectionary, lectionary
•deflationary, inflationary, probationary, stationary, stationery
•expeditionary, petitionary, prohibitionary, traditionary, transitionary
•dictionary • cautionary
•ablutionary, counter-revolutionary, devolutionary, elocutionary, evolutionary, revolutionary, substitutionary
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•diversionary, reversionary
•fernery, quaternary, ternary
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•apery, drapery, japery, napery, papery, vapoury (US vapory)
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•itinerary • honorary • funerary
•contemporary, extemporary, temporary
•literary • brasserie • chancery
•accessory, intercessory, pessary, possessory, tesserae
•dispensary, incensory, ostensory, sensory, suspensory
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•pâtisserie, rotisserie
•emissary • dimissory
•commissary, promissory
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•grocery • greengrocery
•delusory, illusory
•compulsory • vavasory • adversary
•anniversary, bursary, cursory, mercery, nursery
•haberdashery
•evidentiary, penitentiary, plenipotentiary, residentiary
•beneficiary, fishery, judiciary
•noshery • gaucherie • fiduciary
•luxury • tertiary
•battery, cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery
•factory, manufactory, olfactory, phylactery, refractory, satisfactory
•artery, martyry, Tartary
•mastery, plastery
•directory, ex-directory, interjectory, rectory, refectory, trajectory
•peremptory
•alimentary, complementary, complimentary, documentary, elementary, parliamentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, supplementary, testamentary
•investigatory
•adulatory, aleatory, approbatory, celebratory, clarificatory, classificatory, commendatory, congratulatory, consecratory, denigratory, elevatory, gyratory, incantatory, incubatory, intimidatory, modificatory, participatory, placatory, pulsatory, purificatory, reificatory, revelatory, rotatory
•natatory • elucidatory • castigatory
•mitigatory • justificatory
•imprecatory • equivocatory
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•consistory, history, mystery
•presbytery
•inhibitory, prohibitory
•hereditary • auditory • budgetary
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•solitary • cemetery • limitary
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•interplanetary, planetary, sanitary
•primogenitary • dignitary
•admonitory, monitory
•unitary • monetary • territory
•secretary • undersecretary
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•transitory
•depositary, depository, expository, suppository
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•Godwottery, lottery, pottery, tottery
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•coterie, notary, protonotary, rotary, votary
•upholstery
•bijouterie, charcuterie, circumlocutory
•persecutory • statutory • salutary
•executory
•contributory, retributory, tributary
•interlocutory
•buttery, fluttery
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•mandatary, mandatory
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•obligatory
•derogatory, interrogatory, supererogatory
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•ejaculatory
•ambulatory, circumambulatory, perambulatory
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•amatory, declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory, inflammatory, proclamatory
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•lachrymatory
•commentary, promontory
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•momentary
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•monastery • repertory
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•exhortatory, hortatory
•salutatory • gustatory • lavatory
•inventory
•conservatory, observatory
•improvisatory
•accusatory, excusatory
•lathery
•feathery, heathery, leathery
•dithery, slithery
•carvery
•reverie, severy
•Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, slavery, wavery
•thievery
•livery, quivery, shivery
•silvery
•ivory, salivary
•ovary
•discovery, recovery
•servery • equerry • reliquary
•antiquary • cassowary • stipendiary
•colliery • pecuniary • chinoiserie
•misery • wizardry • citizenry
•advisory, provisory, revisory, supervisory
•causerie, rosary
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"rosemary." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "rosemary." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-rosemary.html "rosemary." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-rosemary.html |
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