Nosegay, small, hand-held bouquet popular mid- 19th-century Victorian England as an accsory rried by fashnable ladi. Composed of mixed flowers and herbs and edged wh a paper ill or greens, the arrangement was sometim serted to a silver filigree holr. When supplied by an
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NOSEGAY
The meang of NOSEGAY is a small bunch of flowers : posy. Did you know? * what is a nose gay *
Nosegay is a homegrown word—that is, origated English.
MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH
Nosegay fn, a small bunch of flowers; bouquet; posy. See more." name="scriptn * what is a nose gay *
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.
nosegay fn: 1. a small bunch of cut flowers 2. a small bunch of cut flowers. Learn more. * what is a nose gay *
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.
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Insi, the Queen Consort accepted a tradnal nosegay bouquet and procsed wh Kg Charl up the nave as the service began.