- water tinctured with the essential oil of roses, used as a perfume and in cooking.
- having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
- affectedly delicate, nice, or fine; sentimental: a Victorian novelist with a genteel, rose-water style.
- scented water used as a perfume and in cooking, made by the distillation of rose petals or by impregnation with oil of roses
- (as modifier)
- elegant or delicate, esp excessively so
