Definition of "Rosemary"

"And you - you darling!" - addressing the astonished Rosemary - "will you love your grandmamma? Kiss me, my child." - - -"Oh, you tell fibs!" cried the child. "My name is Rose Marie Romarin - is it not, Grandpa?"

1860, Jedediah Vincent Huntington, Rosemary: or, Life or Death, D.&J. Sadler, Co, published 1860, page 175

Rosemary. A sweet dark name, though finally a shrill trite woman.

1985, Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published 1987, page 53