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Sub rosa (Neo-Latin for "under the rose") is a Latin phrase which denotes secrecy or confidentiality. The rose has an ancient history as a symbol of secrecy.
This was inherited in later Christian symbolism, where roses were carved on to signify that the conversations would remain secret.
The phrase entered the German language ( unter der Rose) and, later, the English language, both as a Latin loan phrase (at least as early as 1654) and in its English translation.
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