nosegay
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I learned that a nosegay is a bouquet of showy flowers.
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- noun A small bunch of flowers; a bouquet.
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I learned that a nosegay is a bouquet of showy flowers.
— Planet Debian -
Yet now the nosegay was as before Morning light is ever a test for transformations.
— The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century -
"Well," said I, "the nosegay is yours at the price," and I held it out to her.
— Simon Dale -
Yet now the nosegay was as before.
— The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century - But if my account is to be anything more than a lifeless list of names, and if, though it cannot be the closely-branched tree of life which actually exists, it is at least to come as near it as a garland or a nosegay to the tree, you must permit me to go back a little into my past life; for out of the self-same spirit, whence arose my own endeavours and which gave its direction to my own life, arose also the circle of those friends who are now so closely united with me. — Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
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- Middle English : nose, nose; see nose + gai, joyous, ornament; see gay.
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/ (nōzˈgāˌ)/
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