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nosegay
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Definition:a bouquet of flowers
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On the platform there rang out "God save the Tsar," then shouts of "hurrah!" and "jivio!" One of the volunteers, a tall, very young man with a hollow chest, was particularly conspicuous, bowing and waving his felt hat and a nosegay over his head. Then two officers emerged, bowing too, and a stout man with a big beard, wearing a greasy forage cap.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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The fairest nosegay is made of many flowers, the finest picture of sundry colours, the most wholesome medicine of divers herbs:
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, p.137 (1578)
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The sheriffs with their great chains and nosegays, other civic gewgaws and monsters, criers, ushers, a great gallery full of people,—a large theatrical audience,—looked on,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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