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title: "Rose cut: meaning in gemology"
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[Glossary](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary) · Cuts and shapes

# Rose cut

Also called rose

A rose cut is a dome of triangular facets on a flat base: all crown and no pavilion.

## In more detail

It spread from the middle of the 1500s. It suited flat rough and lost little weight. Light leaves at the same angle it enters, so the colors recombine: a rose shows almost no fire.

## Related terms

- [Brilliant cut](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/brilliant-cut): A brilliant cut is a cutting style with a crown of facets above a pavilion. Its facet angles return light and spread it into fire.
- [Mazarin cut](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/mazarin-cut): The Mazarin, or double cut, is the first brilliant, from the mid-1600s. It has 34 facets in all, on a cushion outline with a wide, open culet.
- [Old single cut](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/old-single-cut): The old single cut, or eight cut, has 8 facets above the girdle and 18 in all. They are a table, 8 crown facets, 8 pavilion facets and a culet.
- [Fire](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/fire): Fire is the flashes of spectral color that a cut stone sends out. In our census, fire is the share of returned light whose colors leave more than 0.6° apart.

## Learn more

- [The Mazarin cut: the first brilliant](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/historic-cuts/mazarin-cut-diamond)

[All 328 terms](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary)