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sub rosa

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sub rosa /sʌb ˈrəʊzə/

▶adjective & adverb formal happening or done in secret.

– origin L., lit. ‘under the rose’, as an emblem of secrecy.

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