Brewer's: Rosaline

(3 syl.). A negress of sparkling wit and great beauty, attending on the Princess of France, and loved by Lord Biron', a nobleman in the suite of Ferdinand, King of Navarre. (Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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