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Contents:
- NOSEGAY
- GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
- MARCIA GAY HARN RELLS THE HEARTBREAKG MOMENT HER MOM WH ALZHEIMER'S DIDN'T REGNIZE HER
- JO WILR WAS JOEL GREY'S ONLY WIFE BEFORE HE CONFSED TO BEG GAY
- NOSE GAY
NOSEGAY
The meang of NOSEGAY is a small bunch of flowers : posy. Did you know? * mother's nose gay *
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.
GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
* mother's nose gay *
For example, a pact llectn of enjoyably lighthearted short stori might be lled "a nosegay of a book.
a stately procsn of brismaids holdg small nosegays.
MARCIA GAY HARN RELLS THE HEARTBREAKG MOMENT HER MOM WH ALZHEIMER'S DIDN'T REGNIZE HER
My mother, and my (gay) self. * mother's nose gay *
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JO WILR WAS JOEL GREY'S ONLY WIFE BEFORE HE CONFSED TO BEG GAY
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NOSE GAY
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Dictnary Entri Near nosegay. “Nosegay. More om Merriam-Webster on nosegay.