{"id":783,"date":"2011-11-10T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=783"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T16:42:02","slug":"une-roseroses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Une rose\/rose(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Similar to our ‘rosy’, ‘rose(s)’ is ‘pink’:<\/p>\n

Used humorously to describe a socialist ‘rose’ denotes a left-winger as ‘pink’; Toulouse is called ‘la ville rose’ because of the pink stone of which it is largely built.<\/p>\n

‘Une rose’ is a rose but there are many variations on the theme: ‘rose de J\u00e9richo’ : resurrection plant, rose of Jericho;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘rose d’Inde’ : African marigold;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘rose de No\u00ebl’ : Christmas rose;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘rose pompon’ : button rose;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘rose des sables’ : gypsum flower;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘rose tr\u00e9mi\u00e8re’ : hollyhock;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘rose des vents’ : compass rose.<\/p>\n

Ah! I nearly forgot (j’ai presque oubli\u00e9) ‘the pink pound’ which is very useful in Brighton where gay spending power is strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Similar to our ‘rosy’, ‘rose(s)’ is ‘pink’: Used humorously to describe a socialist ‘rose’ denotes a left-winger as ‘pink’; Toulouse is called ‘la ville rose’ because of the pink stone of which it is largely built. ‘Une rose’ is a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-cD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}