couleur de rose
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French couleur de rose (literally “rose-coloured”).
Adjective
editcouleur de rose (not comparable)
- (dated) Favourable; ideal.
- 1823, Mammon in London; or, The spy of the day, page 199:
- […] lo! my enchantress appeared at the head of the room, and without her constant attendant, Lord Ryecourt, to whom I had an unutterable aversion. In an instant the mists vanished, and every thing appeared couleur de rose.
- 1925, Nellie Melba, Melodies and Memories, page 87:
- Everything seemed couleur de rose. I had a flat in the Champs Elysées, and I really think that those days were among the happiest that I ever spent: certainly they were among the most inconsequent.