# Rosette

Rosette is the French diminutive of rose. It may refer to:

## Flower shaped designs

* Rosette (award), a mark awarded by an organisation
* Rosette (design), a small flower design
* hence, various flower-shaped or rotational symmetric forms:
** Rosette (decoration), a small circular device that can be awarded with medal
** Rosette (politics), worn by political candidates in an election
** Rosette, a type of chain stitch in sewing
** Rose window, 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. "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), 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