Nosegay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

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Nosegay is a homegrown word—that is, origated English. 15th-century Middle English speakers joed nose (which meant then what do today) wh gay (which, at the time, meant "ornament"). That mak nosegay an appropriate term for a bunch of flowers, which is ed an ornament that appeals to the nose.

Today, the word nosegay is pecially mon the bridal bs, where ually refers to a specific type of bouquet: a round, tight bunch of flowers as opposed to a sdg bouquet or other type of arrangement. For example, a pact llectn of enjoyably lighthearted short stori might be lled "a nosegay of a book.

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Middle English, om nose nose + gay ornament, lerally, somethg gay, om gay. The first known e of nosegay was.

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Dictnary Entri Near nosegay. “Nosegay. More om Merriam-Webster on nosegay.

Michiel Sweerts, Boy a Turban Holdg a Nosegay (between 1658 and 1662; sense 1)[n 1].

), [1] om nōse (“nose”) (om Old English nosu, [2] ultimately om Proto-Indo-European *nas- (“nose”)) + gai (“a bright or gay object; an ornament”)[3] (om Old French gai (“cheerful, gay, happy”)); equivalent to nose +‎ gay. Hyphenatn: nose‧gay.

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nosegay (plural nosegays). A small bunch of agrant flowers or herbs tied a bundle, often prented as a gift; nosegays were origally tend to be put to the nose for the pleasant sensatn or to mask unpleasant odours.

I), volume II, London: Privately prted, [1867], →OCLC, page 17:[N]o more is Pierce Pennileſſe to be ld the Devils Orator for makg a Supplitn to the Devill, than hee is to bee hel for a Rhethorian for ſettg foorth Gabrielis Scurvei Rhetor, where hee thought to have knockt out the bra of poore Tulli Orator, but verie did nothg elſe, but gather a flntge unſavory ſore-horſe noſegay out of his well furniſhed garland. [Daniel] Solanr, and the two gentlemen who were wh him, muſt have miſtaken the tent of the noſegays which were ſo plentifully beſtowed on them by the ladi, om their balni, as they walked through the ſtreets of this place the eveng.

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