Rosemordris Circle
Preserved but no longer current.
See MERRY MAIDENS. Rosetta Stone, The (ro zet' a). A stone found in 1799 by M. Boussard, a French officer of en- gineers, in an excavation made at Fort St. Julien, near Rosetta, in the Nile delta. It has an inscription in three different languages — the hieroglyphic, the demotic, and the Greek. It was erected 195 B^C. in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, because he remitted the dues of the sacerdotal body.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “Rosemordris Circle” mean?
See MERRY MAIDENS. Rosetta Stone, The (ro zet' a). A stone found in 1799 by M. Boussard, a French officer of en- gineers, in an excavation made at Fort St. Julien, near Rosetta, in the Nile delta. It has an inscription in three different languages — the hieroglyphic, the demotic, and the Greek. It was erected 195 B^C. in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, because he remitted the dues of the sacerdotal body.
Is “Rosemordris Circle” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.