Rossetti
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- proper noun
- /rɒˈzɛti/
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a central figure in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for his poetry and painting.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Christina Rossetti
- Gabriel Rossetti
Examples
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Christina Rossetti was an exception among nineteenth-century readers in registering her resistance to "Wine of Cyprus."
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As Christina Rossetti herself noted: "A blessing on the flowers...
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Zach Rossetti is an assistant professor of special education in the School of Education at Boston University.
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Jonathan begins with a few lines from Rossetti's House of Life.
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Christina Rossetti wrote love sonnets.
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Dr. Rossetti's research focuses on friendship opportunities, inclusive education, and sibling relationships of people with severe disabilities.
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Appropriately enough, given its oddly listless speaker, Rossetti's poem struggles to separate what is vital and alive.
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Christina Georgina Rossetti, poetess, English, born 1830, died 1894.
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Indeed, Swinburne was so taken with Villon that he and his friend D. G. Rossetti even proposed translating Villon's oeuvre into English.
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Among the writers to pay homage to Bruges were Camille Lemonnier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Emile Verhaeren.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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An English poet and painter who helped start the Pre-Raphaelite art group
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rossetti is an Italian family name that comes from rosso ('red') plus the ending -etti ('little'), so it originally meant 'little red'. A helpful image is a small red-haired person, which makes it easier to remember the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.