rosemaling

noun /ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlɪŋ/

1. A Norwegian style of stylized floral decoration with scrollwork and geometric elements.

   uncountable

   Rosemaling is the most recent of the Norwegian peasant crafts.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaling (“rose painting”), from rose (“rose”) + maling (“painting”) (from male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -ing (suffix used to form nouns from verbs)). The form rosemåling is borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk rosemåling with unadapted script.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry rosemaling (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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