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Meanings of posy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bouquet"
Examples for "bouquet"
1
I am going to the theatre to-night; and I wanted a bouquet.
2
She took the bouquet and set it on the nurses' station counter.
3
When my great aunt died, he sent a large bouquet of flowers.
4
Soon after she arrived home a huge bouquet of roses was delivered.
5
In place of the Easter candle, each held a bouquet of flowers.
1
Francine threw a nosegay after the departing guest as he got in.
2
Sure enough, there was a drooping nosegay of pinks in the window.
3
Out of the waistcoat-pocket protruded a little nosegay of sweet-williams and musk.
4
Atlas came in shortly after and laid a nosegay at Egeria's plate.
5
I would not smell at the same nosegay with her in public!
1
It should be cut low in the corsage, and have no sleeves.
2
I did too, then remembered what Sloane had said, about the corsage.
3
I'll get you flowers another time. I held out the corsage box.
4
First off, Sloane practically burst a vein when she saw the corsage.
5
She saw drops of blood on the white corsage of her mistress.
1
Is not a stone to carve a posey on!
2
I never wanted it to be posey.
3
Bennett opened the door to admit the burly frame of Posey Breem.
4
On this farm was the old Posey fishery and ferry to Maryland.
5
Another recipient of Washington's bounty was his old neighbor, Captain John Posey.
1
I'll give you a delicious orange I brought with my lunch for that posie.
2
By and by he trotted around the house and came upon the lassie, busily clearing winter rubbish from her posie bed.
3
Only the clumps of trees were there, the mossy grass, the flowers whose beauty and plenteousness mocked the posie in the girl's hands.
4
After rejoining the ladies, he sang another, "A posie for my ain dear May," and likewise "A man's a man for a' that."
5
Posie could sing, Lucy could draw, Laura could play, I could ride, etc.
1
Middleton's shoes, earrings, tiara, as well as replicas of her flower bouquet and wedding cake were also on display.
2
Putin, who has a black belt in the sport, invited tiny 10-year-old Natsumi onto the mat after rerceiving a flower bouquet.
3
Brussels will even feature in some of the retailer's festive flower bouquets.
4
They placed one of the rice balls on the Kobayashi gravestone, in between the fresh flower bouquets.
5
The original gifts were no more than digital trinkets, cartoon images of flower bouquets, teddy bears and even women's underwear.
1
Then I curled up with Rosie's tussie-mussie book and a legal pad.
Usage of posy in English
1
Alice buried her face in the fragrant posy to hide her embarrassment.
2
Besides, the more varied the flowers the handsomer will our posy be.
3
Judah carries a present in his pack and a posy of swampflowers.
4
In your wedding dress with a posy in your hand and .
5
Or shall I just give it a posy of roses in the bottom?
6
The motto, or posy, on the wedding ring, at his fourth marriage was-
7
He say you the most complete posy he evah did see.
8
You are much too savage-youneed a posy to soften you.
9
I never favored her goin' to Boston, where that rosy-posy Claude feller is.
10
She glanced at the posy in his button-hole and smiled.
11
The Prioress laid the posy on the seat beside her.
12
A posy of fresh thrift flowers lay on the epitaph.
13
You've made me feel as if I'd never like to pull a posy again.
14
HAMLET.-Isthis a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
15
I allers distrust that pink-an'-white, rosy-posy kind of a man.
16
Oh, stoppin' to pick a posy, for the child, likely.
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United Kingdom
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