different between rosier vs cosier

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rosier

1. comparative form of rosy: more rosy

Etymology 2

From Old French rosier.

Noun

rosier (plural rosiers)

1. (archaic) rosebush
   • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:

     on the top ?tood five trees: the fir?t was an olive tree, on which hanged a ?hield of the armes of the church of Rome; the ?econd was a pyne aple tree, with the arms of the emperor; the third was a ro?yer, with the armes of England; the fourth a braunche of lylies, bearing the armes of France; and the fifth a pomegranet tree, bearing the armes of Spayn

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 9, verse 19:

     Ne other tire ?he on her head did weare,
     But crowned with a garland of ?weete ro?iere.

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The single nightingale
     Perch’d in the rosier by, so richly ton’d,
     That never from that most melodious bird,
     Singing a love-song to his brooding mate,
     Did Thracian shepherd by the grave
     Of Orpheus hear a sweeter melody

Anagrams

• Rories

French

Etymology

From Old French rosier. Equivalent to rose +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.zje/

Noun

rosier m (plural rosiers)

1. rosebush

Further reading

• “rosier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

rose +? -ier

Noun

rosier m (oblique plural rosiers, nominative singular rosiers, nominative plural rosier)

1. rosebush

Descendants

• French: rosier

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

cosier

1. comparative form of cosy: more cosy

Etymology 2

Compare Old French coussier (“maker of mattresses”), or couseor (“tailor”).

Noun

cosier (plural cosiers)

1. (obsolete) An incompetent tailor.
   • 1601-02, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     Do you make an alehouse of my lady’s house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice?

Anagrams

• Croesi, Crœsi, Recios, cories, croise, croisé, scorie