NOSEGAY | fn the Cambridge English Dictnary

Contents:

• NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY
• MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH
• SYNONYMS OF NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY
• MAKE YOUR OWN NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAYS
• NOSEGAY
• WHAT IS A NOSEGAY BOUQUET?
• MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH
• A NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY
• WHAT IS A NOSEGAY AND WHAT WAS ORIGALLY ED FOR?
• NOSEGAY (CROSSWORD CLUE)

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.

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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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a stately procsn of brismaids holdg small nosegays. 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.

MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH

Lay flowers across one palm and hold them like a nosegay.

That loomg thunrhead noted, the race do brg a nosegay of talent and some fe old masters at the game, among them, D. For her 100th birthday lunch her elegant Stanford Whe retirement muny Rye, New York, Simpson sported her later--life uniform, wh her tramark pearls and a nosegay of h flowers worn as a bracelet. Prce Albert’s grandmother gave Victoria a nosegay ntag myrtle.

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.

SYNONYMS OF NOSEGAY

The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'nosegay.

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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.

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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.

nosegay, also lled tsie-msie, or posey, small, hand-held bouquet popular mid- 19th-century Victorian England as an accsory rried by fashnable ladi.

When supplied by an admirer, a nosegay beme a vehicle for the floral “language of love”—e. Meang of nosegay English. Exampl of nosegay.

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nosegay. Others have had to brg nosegays bee of the stench. I should like to add to the nosegay the humble leek.

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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.

WHAT IS A NOSEGAY BOUQUET?

Her poems were often sent to iends wh acpanyg letters and nosegays. 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.

MEANG OF NOSEGAY ENGLISH

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.

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Tradnally, bris will also rry a small nosegay.

In the sixteenth century medical nosegays began to give way to ornamental on.

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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.

WHAT IS A NOSEGAY AND WHAT WAS ORIGALLY ED FOR?

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.

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.

NOSEGAY (CROSSWORD CLUE)

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.

I had lgered behd to gather a nosegay of the small blue flowers that marked the day's march. : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 307:At the far end of the ho the head garner stood wag for his mistrs, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay.