Sentence examples for old rose from inspiring English sources
noun
A rose belonging to any of the classes of cultivated roses in existence before the hybrid tea roses were developed.
The standard definition is that an old rose in any that appeared before the introduction of the first Hybrid Tea rose, 'La France,' in 1867.
The old rose colors, occasionally darkening to wine, appeared as silken dresses.
You can imagine old Rose whispering fiercely into cast members' ears just before they go on: "This is it!
Upstairs, bedrooms include the Rose Room, which overlooks the old rose gardens, and the Butterfly Room, which has a balcony with views toward the Cotswold Hills.
For the purpose of his book, an old rose is any that is not modern.
The collectors I have met may be unable to define an old rose except by negatives, buy they know one when they see it.
Christopher: One of my favorite old roses is the "Hole Rose," a vigorous shrub that bears pale yellow blossoms touched with a blush of pink.
These days, John Cohen lives in an old rose-petal-red farmhouse in Putnam Valley, New York.
But not any old roses, she thought.
"But not just any old roses".
Old roses, as a group, are various sports, mutations, or hybrids of species roses.
