rose

(le) rose (FR ADJ) pink in color, pale red, red mixed with white, as the rose flower was originally colored; fresh, young; optimistic; (N-M) the color pink. First appears in French in the 15th century, from Latin rosa. (Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Bourget, Gautier, Gravollet, Haraucourt, Laurencin, Leconte de Lisle, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Vilmorin)