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Rose Cottage
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English
Etymology
From a stereotypical name for a person's home with roses growing around it, but here ironically referring to the red colour of sores or bleeding.
Proper noun
Rose Cottage
en naval _ slang An isolation ward for treating venereal disease in sailors when ashore.
en medicine slang The morgue or mortuary.