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Sub rosa   /səb rˈoʊzə/   Listen
Sub rosa

adverb
1.
In secret or covertly.





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"Sub rosa" Quotes from Famous Books



... profane, no flower figures so conspicuously as the rose. To the Romans it was most significant when placed over the door of a public or private banquet hall. Each who passed beneath it bound himself thereby not to disclose anything said or done within; hence the expression sub rosa, ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan


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