rosales

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

rŏsāles escae [rosa],

an annual feast , when the tombs were adorned with garlands of roses , the feast of roses; cf. our Decoration day, Inscr. Orell. 4419; cf.: ROSAE ET ESCAE, ib. 4418.— The ceremony of hanging up the garlands was called ROSALIA, ĭum , n., Inscr. Maff. Mus. Veron. 146, 3.