Entry: sub-rosa
In context: "How many sub-rosa twins are there, out there, really?"
Definition: ‘under the rose’, in secret, secretly.
Other:I was pretty excited to get to this entry. I had some sense of what the word meant from reading it in a few contexts, so the definition wasn't a surprise. The Wikipedia page is absolutely worth reading!
SNOOT score: 4
Page:220
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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