Nosegay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

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• NOSEGAY
• MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH
• SYNONYMS OF NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY (N.)
• DEFN OF 'NOSEGAY'
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF NOSEGAY
• DEFINITIONS FOR NOSEGAYˈNOʊZˌGEɪNOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY SYMBOL IN TEA LEAV
• NOSEGAY - WHAT DO MEAN?NOSEGAY | |IS LIKELY MISSPELLED.HAS NO ENGLISH FN.AS A NOUN NOSEGAYIS A SMALL BUNCH OF AGRANT FLOWERS OR HERBS, TIED A BUNDLE, OFTEN PRENTED AS A GIFT ON MEETG, AND ORIGALLY TEND TO BE PUT TO THE NOSE FOR THE PLEASANT SENSATN, OR TO MASK UNPLEASANT ODOURS.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.

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. 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.

DEFN OF 'NOSEGAY'

The first known e of nosegay was. Dictnary Entri Near nosegay.

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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.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF NOSEGAY

The stant the words were out of my mouth, the nosegay flew om her hand, and h me on the face. So they walked off slowly, and the boy looked after them and the nosegay as if he would like very much to have . I picked up the sttered flowers, tied them together, and stuck the nosegay my button-hole.

Not a flower named but is really betiful; yet, save the lily, none would be gathered for nosegays. The nosegay moved faster, and at last vanished unr the gate, while a giggle sound om the other si of the hedge. A flower-lovg woman brgs back om every one of her equent journeys some treasure of flower-seeds or a huge miscellaneo nosegay.

DEFINITIONS FOR NOSEGAYˈNOʊZˌGEɪNOSEGAY

In his snowy shirt-ont was stuck a cur nosegay of brightly dyed elweiss, tied wh a srlet ribbon. Then she took a wilted rose-bud om a nosegay at her breast, and gave to him. Children crowd up to the rs wh small baskets of berri and nosegays.

What is that wh summer which mak all male life rry nosegays to my lady's easement? There was pla sight, risg like a giant nosegay of emerald om the crystalle water.

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He stood lookg moodily at the ground, where his nosegay of vlets and alrs was all sttered and trampled. The gentleman wh the nosegay his bosom had now perceived our two iends, and was approachg the young girl wh obsequ rapidy. When she reached the betiful pear-tree which before had looked like a nosegay, she stood still.

Ltle nosegays were sent to town on all ocsns, and certa vas about the hoe were her pecial re. Meang of nosegay English.

NOSEGAY SYMBOL IN TEA LEAV

Exampl of nosegay. nosegay. Others have had to brg nosegays bee of the stench.

I should like to add to the nosegay the humble leek. I gather that the eighteenth century people rried nosegays of flowers bee the sweet scent of the flowers unteracted the vile smell of the streets.

Alternately, a modified nosegay that a prom date n rry her hand or a p-on type rsage. Her poems were often sent to iends wh acpanyg letters and nosegays.

NOSEGAY - WHAT DO MEAN?NOSEGAY | |IS LIKELY MISSPELLED.HAS NO ENGLISH FN.AS A NOUN NOSEGAYIS A SMALL BUNCH OF AGRANT FLOWERS OR HERBS, TIED A BUNDLE, OFTEN PRENTED AS A GIFT ON MEETG, AND ORIGALLY TEND TO BE PUT TO THE NOSE FOR THE PLEASANT SENSATN, OR TO MASK UNPLEASANT ODOURS.NOSEGAY

So a "nosegay" was an ornament that appeals to the nose or nostril.

It was not allowed to give flowers, not even the smallt nosegay.

The stench was overwhelmg and people walked around wh handkerchiefs or nosegays prsed agast their nostrils. The flower are generally nsired not suable for pickg but may be ed nosegays and tsy-msi. Some of his works are displays of abundance; others, only a ftoon or a nosegay.

Handheld bouquets are classified by several different popular shap and styl, cludg nosegay, crcent, and sdg bouquets. Tradnally, bris will also rry a small nosegay.

In the sixteenth century medical nosegays began to give way to ornamental on. The are thought to have rived om nosegays which would have migated the smell of some of the ls salubr parts of the town tim past.

A tsie msie is a small circular bouquet like a nosegay, but rri symbolic meang based upon the language of flowers, where particular flowers reprent specific sentiments.

Translatns of nosegay.

Ths Entri Near nosegay.

As a surname, Philipp Gay), om Old French gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charmg; forward, pert; light-lored" (12c. ; pare Old Spanish gayo, Portugue ga, Italian gajo, probably French loan-words). )) word gay by the 1890s had an overall tge of promiscuy — a gay hoe was a brothel.

The suggtn of immoraly the word n be traced back at least to the 1630s, if not to Chcer:But oure bed he was so sh and gay. Whan that he wol han my bele slang meang "homosexual" (adj. ) begs to appear psychologil wrg the late 1940s, evintly picked up om gay slang and not always easily distguished om the olr sense:After discharge A.

He was not happy at the farm and went to a Wtern cy where he associated wh a homosexual crowd, beg "gay, " and wearg female cloth and makp. 240]The associatn wh (male) homosexualy likely got a boost om the term gay t, ed as far back as 1893 Amerin English for "young hobo, " one who is new on the road, also one who sometim do jobs.

"A Gay Cat, " said he, "is a loafg laborer, who works maybe a week, gets his wag and vagabonds about huntg for another 'pick and shovel' job.

Do you want to know where they got their moni (nickname) 'Gay Cat'? See, Kid, ts sneak about and scratch immediately after chummg wh you and then get gay (h).

That's why we ll them 'Gay Cats'. Gay ts were severely and celly abed by "real" tramps and bums, who nsired them "an ferr orr of begs who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum — as were a jackal followg up the kg of beasts" [Prof. McCook, "Tramps, " "The Public Treatment of Pperism, " 1893], but some acunts report certa olr tramps would domate a gay t and employ him as a sort of slave.

In "Soclogy and Social Rearch" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay t" phenomenon not, "Homosexual practic are more mon than rare this group, " and gey t "homosexual boy" is attted Noel Erske's 1933 dictnary of "Unrworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Sttish variant of gay) "Dictnary of Amerin Slang" reports that gay (adj. ) was ed by homosexuals, among themselv, this sense at least sce 1920. Rawson ["Wicked Words"] not a male prostute g gay reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostut) London's notor Cleveland Street Sndal of 1889.

Ayto ["20th Century Words"] lls attentn to the ambiguo e of the word the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk the Dry Goods Store, " by U. "Gay" (or "gai") is now wily ed French, Dutch, Danish, Japane, Swedish, and Catalan wh the same sense as the English.