Rosette is the French diminutive of ''

rose A rose is either a woody perennial plant, perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred Rose species, species and Garden roses, tens of thousands of cultivar ...

''. It may refer to:

Flower shaped designs

Rosette (award) A trophy is a tangible, decorative item used to remind of a specific achievement, serving as recognition or evidence of merit. Trophies are most commonly awarded for sporting events, ranging from youth sports to professional level athletics. Add ...

, a mark awarded by an organisation *

Rosette (design) A rosette is a round, stylized flower design. Origin The rosette derives from the natural shape of the botanical rosette, formed by leaves radiating out from the stem of a plant and visible even after the flowers have withered. History The ...

, a small flower design *hence, various flower-shaped or rotational symmetric forms: **

Rosette (decoration) A rosette is a small, circular device that is typically presented with a medal. The rosettes are either worn on the medal to denote a higher rank, or for situations where wearing the medal is deemed inappropriate, such as on a Suit (clothing), ...

, a small circular device that can be awarded with medal ** Rosette (politics), worn by political candidates in an election ** Rosette, a type of

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in sewing **

Rose window Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in Gothic cathedrals and churches. The windows are divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery. The term ''rose window'' wa ...

, a Gothic circular architectonic component cut most frequently in shape similar to a rose ** Rosette (botany), a circular arrangement of leaves ** Rosette (zoology), markings like those of a jaguar ** a structure near the beak of some birds ** Pliska rosette, an ancient bronze artifact found in Pliska, Bulgaria in 1961 ** Rosette sampler, a circular arrangement of Nansen bottles ** a trophy attached on the head of a bull in the French ''course camarguaise'' bullfighting event ** Klemperer rosette, a term used in interstellar cosmology and science fiction to indicate a group of cosmic bodies in a gravitational relationship. * Rosette (music), soundhole decoration on musical instruments.

Placename

* Rosetta, aka Rosetta or Rashid, a port city on the Mediterranean coast * Rosette, Utah, an unincorporated ranching community in Box Elder County, United States * a site near Round Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada * La Rosette, a settlement in Guadeloupe in the commune of Le Moule, on the island of Grande-Terre * Sainte-Rosette, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Canada

People

* Rosette (actress) (real name Françoise Quéré, born 1959), a French actress * La Belle Rosette, real name Beryl McBurnie (1915–2000), a Trinidadian dance legend * Rosette Bir (1926–1992), French sculptor * Rosette Anday * Rosette Sharma (born 1982), Canadian singer, songwriter and actress * Clinton Rosette (1850–1909), prominent citizen of DeKalb, Illinois

Fictional characters

* Rosette Lambert in ''The Secret of Rosette Lambert'', a 1920 French film by Raymond Bernard * Rosette Christopher, the protagonist of the ''Chrono Crusade'' anime and manga series * Princess Rosette, a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy * Rosette, a character in ''Manon'', an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet

Food

* Rosette (grape), a wine grape variety **Rufete (grape), a Portuguese/Spanish wine grape variety that is also known as Rosette * Rosette (cookie), a thin crispy moulded cookie apparently of Scandinavian origin * Rosette, a white Bergerac wine * Rosette (cake), a decoration made by cream or frosting, with a piping tip. mwod:rosette, "a food decoration or garnish in the shape of a rose" * Rosette de Lyon, a French pork saucisson or sausage * a dish from Emalia-Romagna consisting of a pasta filled with bechamel, cream, ham and others: see List of Italian dishes#Emilia-Romagna * a kind of bread from Italian province of Veneto

Music

* Rosette (album), ''Rosette'' (album), an album by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudō

Scientific names which include the element "rosette"

* a Point group in geometry is also known as a rosette group * Rosette Nebula, a nebula in the Monoceros constellation * Rosette sampler, a device used to assess water quality * Gypsum rosette, an alternative name for a Desert rose (crystal) * Klemperer rosette, a symmetrical arrangement of orbiting bodies arranged around a common center of mass * The Rosette terminal complex is a structure in vascular plants that produces cellulose * Erythrocyte rosetting is formation of red blood cells arranging themselves around a central cell so that the entire cluster looks more or less like a flower * Rosette or palisade (pathology) of cells in a halo or spoken-wheel arrangement * Furstenberg's rosette, an anatomical structure located in the internal streak canal of the teat * Mossy fiber (cerebellum) is sometimes called a mossy fiber rosette * The anterior olfactory nucleus of fishes can be called the olfactory rosette * A rosette agent is ''Sphaerothecum destruens'', a protist parasite of fish * Rosette (schizont appearance), a formation characteristic of schizonts in protozoal infections by the reptile parasites ''Plasmodium tropiduri'' and ''P. holaspi'' or fish parasite ''Babesiosoma'' * Groundnut rosette virus, a plant pathogenic virus * Peach rosette mosaic virus, a plant pathogenic virus * Rose rosette disease, a disease of the rose caused by a phytoplasm: see list of pests and diseases of roses * CD2, a protein also known as rosette receptor

Similar spellings

* Claudia Rosett, an American writer and journalist * Rosete (disambiguation) * Roset (disambiguation) * Rozet (disambiguation) * Rozetes, symbols of the Eleusinian cult visible at the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis, Greece * Roxette, a Swedish pop duo