| Front | nosegay \NOHZ-gay\ |
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| Back | noun A small bunch of flowers: posy. [Posy is a variant of the word poesy, meaning "poem, poetry." Sometimes called nosegays or tussie-mussies, posies were popular accessories among fashionable women in Victorian England, and, harkening the word's literary origin, became vehicles for the floral "language of love."] HAMLET: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? OPHELIA: ’Tis brief, my lord. HAMLET: As woman’s love. -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1603 This time I have to bring her in an hour a posy of the rarest flowers, and where am I to find them? - Andrew Lang, The Orange Fairy Book, 1906 |
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