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rosé wine

rosé wine

1 3.3
A light pink wine made from red grapes
  • noun
  • /roʊˈzeɪ waɪn/
translation icon : vino rosado
  • I enjoyed a glass of rosé wine with my dinner on a warm summer evening.

Examples

  • It almost looks like a rosé wine.

    Blog text (3)

  • What good is a clean house and rosé wine gonna do?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Here we lunched on olives, cheese, dates, and figs, all washed down with some delightful Tunisian rosé wine.

    Blog text (26)

  • She chose a chilled rosé wine to pair with the fresh seafood.

  • Many people find rosé wine to be a refreshing choice for outdoor gatherings.

Synonyms

rosé
vsrosé wine
9 6.0

A light pink wine made from red grapes

is the fuller name for that drink
pink wine
vsrosé wine
1 3.1

A pale pink drink made from red grapes with their skins taken off early

is usually a slightly deeper pink than that pale form
blush wine
vsrosé wine
4.4

A light pink wine made from red grapes

removes skins earlier to produce a paler fresher color

How Pink

rosé wine
1 3.3
pink wine
1 3.1
white wine
53 1.0

Surface Forms

rosé wine singular
rosé wines plural
rose wines plural
rose wine singular

Morphology

rosé + wine

The meaning 'a pinkish wine made from red grapes' is directly and compositionally derived from 'rosé' (a lightly fermented/pink-style wine) + 'wine' (fermented grape beverage). This is a transparent noun phrase and a cross-linguistically common type-label, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Rosé wine comes from the French word rosé, which means 'pink'. Winemakers let red grape skins touch the juice for only a short time so the wine becomes a light pink, and that is why rosé wine today means a light pink wine.