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Word entry · 7 letters

nosegay

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"Small bouquet"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈnəʊzɡeɪ/Part of speech nounSorted aegnosyStarts with NEnds with Y1 clues
1N2O3S4E5G6A7Y

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"Small bouquet"2 answers
posy4 lettersnosegay7 letters

Filled answer is this word (NOSEGAY).

Definitions

  1. an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

Word origin

From Late Middle English nōsegai (?), from nōse (“nose”) (from Old English nosu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nas- (“nose”)) + gai (“a bright or gay object; an ornament”) (from Old French gai (“cheerful, gay, happy”)); equivalent to nose + gay.

Used in a sentence

  • At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
  • Tacked to Miss Trixie's desk was a large sign that said miss trixie with an old-fashioned nosegay drawn in crayon in one corner.
  • The 80-year-old Government Opium and Alkaloid Works in Neemuch smells better than it looks. The turfy-chocolaty nosegay of raw opium wafts from hundreds of milk cans.

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