nosegay - Wiktnary

Contents:

• PATTERN: NOSEGAY
• NOSEGAY
• BRIDAL BOUQUET/NOSEGAY BOOK & TEMPLATE SET
• NOSEGAY (N.)
• WONRFUL 1930'S "OLD FASHNED NOSE GAY" ANTIQUE FEED SACK QUILT
• OLD-FASHNED NOSEGAY MAK A FE HOLIDAY GIFT
• OLD FASHNED GAY

PATTERN: NOSEGAY

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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.

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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.

BRIDAL BOUQUET/NOSEGAY BOOK & TEMPLATE SET

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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.

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; 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.

WONRFUL 1930'S "OLD FASHNED NOSE GAY" ANTIQUE FEED SACK QUILT

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.

OLD-FASHNED NOSEGAY MAK A FE HOLIDAY GIFT

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.

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[John Boswell, "Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, " 1980]As a teen slang word meang "bad, ferr, unsirable, " whout reference to sexualy, om 2000. 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 (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.