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Fellow AWAD person Rubrick has cleverly combined the name of a building at Trinity with a nod to the beautiful red brick of said building. Which got me to thinking: "rubric" originally coms from the Latin for red, doesn't it? I checked. It does. Very cool. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=rubricWhich brings me to the expression "sub rosa," which far as I remember, means "between me and thee." I'm having trouble looking that one up. As I recall, it coms from some English monarch (Tudor = rose?) who liked to receive visitors in his bed, on the wall above which was painted a rose. This is bugging me, can someone set me straight on the origin?
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Most of our monarchs (pre Victoria) have been very happy to receive visitors in their beds - we might need to think about that one.
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Oh, dear, and I did try to word that so carefully... even went back and replaced "entertain" with "receive." [crestfallen]
Hey, I'm a member now! Where's that party?
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Under the rose (sub rosa). In strict confidence. Cupid gave Harpocrates (the god of silence) a rose, to bribe him not to betray the amours of Venus. Hence the flower became the emblem of silence. It was for this reason sculptured on the ceilings of banquet-rooms, to remind the guests that what was spoken sub vino was not to be uttered sub divo. In 1526 it was placed over confessionals. The banquet-room ceiling at Haddon Hall is decorated with roses. (French, parler sous la rose.)
credit to THE DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE BY E. COBHAM BREWER
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> Most of our monarchs (pre Victoria) have been very happy to receive visitors in their beds - we might need to think about that one.
Damn! I wish I hadn't left so early on Friday. You beat me to it, Jo!
Oh, don't forget Edward VII - 'Bertie the bounder!'
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> Fellow AWAD person Rubrick has cleverly combined the name of a building at Trinity with a nod to the beautiful red brick of said building. Nice to see a thread about me, Anna (it is about me, isn't it?) . To quote Oscar (again) 'There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about'.
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