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Look up: sub-rosa

  1. Sub Rosa
    (Latin) literally under the rose; this phrase has come to mean secretly or under cover; the exact genealogy of the phrase is debated.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  2. sub rosa
    [adv] - in secret or covertly
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. sub rosa
    adverb in secret or covertly; `held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  4. Sub rosa
    The Latin phrase `sub rosa` means `under the rose` and is used in English to connote secrecy or confidentiality. The rose was the emblem of the god Horus in ancient Egypt. Later the Greeks and Romans regarded this as god of silence. This originates from a Greek/Roman misinterpretation of an Egyptian hieroglyphic adopting Horus along with Isis and Osiris as a god. The Greeks translated his Egyptian name Har-pa-khered to Harpocrates. The rose's ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_rosa

  5. sub rosa
    sub rosa Under the rose. Secretly, confidentially, privately. Units of mottoes and proverbs listed by groups: A to X.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  6. sub-rosa
    [adj] - designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  7. sub-rosa
    under-the-table adjective designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; `a sub-rosa report`; `has their under-the-table backing`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. subserosa
    The layer of connective tissue beneath a serous membrane such as that of the periconeum or pericardium. Syn: tela subserosa TA, subserous layer
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8 November 2009

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Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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