NOSEGAY | English meang - Cambridge Dictnary

Contents:

• NOSEGAY
• MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH
• SYNONYMS OF NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY (N.)
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF NOSEGAY

NOSEGAY

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.

a stately procsn of brismaids holdg small nosegays.

MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH

Insi, the Queen Consort accepted a tradnal nosegay bouquet and procsed wh Kg Charl up the nave as the service began. The Classic brgs que the bright nosegay of favor Meda Spir, whose hardy Derby w and subsequent dg tribulatns lerally rocked the sport back on s heels this summer, and his rival Essential Qualy. Lay flowers across one palm and hold them like a nosegay.

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SYNONYMS OF NOSEGAY

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NOSEGAY (N.)

Debutant, who rried nosegays of pk ros tied wh a green ribbon, clud First Maid Miss Man Thompson, Send Maid Miss Daijah Jeanmorie and butant Miss Kayla Caldwell, Tia Peck, Paris Vcent, and Michaela Zeno. The queen, wearg an electric blue at and hat trimmed black fur and holdg a nosegay of daffodils, primros, eias, rosemary, thyme and ivy leav, gave each recipient a red and a whe purse.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF NOSEGAY

The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'nosegay. Middle English, om nose nose + gay ornament, lerally, somethg gay, om gay. The first known e of nosegay was.

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

How to e nosegay a sentenceWhen our nosegay is ready, we lay the ne wh the flowers very refully a dish of she has a notn she mt be very fe ed now, rryg a nosegay bigger than her own Cathere sgs, as she gathers her nosegay: "Away to the woods alone" and "My heart is for him, my heart is for him. "It would puzzle a garner to surpass the elegance and licy of such a what do he do, on obtag the nosegay, but exame well. Brish Dictnary fns for nosegaynouna small bunch of flowers; posyOrig of nosegay1C15: om nose + archaic gay a toyColls English Dictnary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digal Edn.

nose·gay (nōz′gā′)n.

[Middle English: nose, nose; see nose + gai, joyo, ornament; see gay. Nosegay (ˈnəʊzˌɡeɪ) na small bunch of flowers; posy[C15: om nose + archaic gay a toy]Colls English Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edn 2014 © HarperColls Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014nose•gay (ˈnoʊzˌgeɪ) n.

[1375–1425; lerally, a gay (see gay) for the nose] Random Hoe Kernerman Webster's College Dictnary, © 2010 K Dictnari Ltd.