Rosette

see also: Etymology of Rosette

A rosette is a symmetrical figure, formed of Courbe S registered in a Cercle starting from a point or central button, having more or less the form of a pink or a star stylized, and used like reason for decoration.

In the fields of the Architecture and Decoration, a rosette can be:

a Ornament, or a Moulure affecting this form, used mainly structures about it to decorate the boxes with Plafond, the Voûte S, and in Menuiserie to decorate a Meuble.

large a Stained glass, or a whole of stained glasses of circular form decorating a church, a pink of architecture. ( See also: Religious architecture )

a metal disc decorated, used to dissimulate the head of an apparent nail supporting a framework, a mirror, etc

The term of rosette is also employed in other fields:

In Seam, a rosette is a reason of Broderie, or Dentelle.

In Data processing, a rosette is a plane wheel of a Typewriter, or of a Imprimante, comprising a central part from which leave the petals whose ends carry a character in relief.

In Medicine, the rosette is the evolutionary stage of the Hématozoaire of the Paludisme, preceding the bursting by the parasitized red Globule.

In Music, a rosette is a circular, generally ornamented opening, located at the center of the sounding board of the Clavecin, Luth, Guitare, Viole, etc

In the Telecommunication S, at the beginning of the XXe century, the rosette was a Commutateur of use in the telegraphic central offices not very important, and which was composed, generally, of a plate out of hard, hollow wooden in the center, on which the terminals of fastener corresponding to the various apparatuses of the central office were laid out in circle.

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