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sub ro·sa (sub rō’z). In secret; privately; confidentially [Latin, “under the rose,” from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of secrecy, from the legend that Cupid once gave Harpocrates, the god of silence, a rose to make him keep the secrets of Venus.]

—American Heritage Dictionary