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  • Others have had to bring in nosegays because of the stench.

  • I should like to add to the nosegay the humble leek.

  • I gather that in the eighteenth century people carried nosegays of flowers because the sweet scent of the flowers counteracted the vile smell of the streets.

  • Alternately, a modified nosegay that a prom date can carry in her hand or a pin-on type corsage.

  • Her poems were often sent to friends with accompanying letters and nosegays.

  • So a "nosegay" was an ornament that appeals to the nose or nostril.

  • It was not allowed to give flowers, not even the smallest nosegay.

  • The stench was overwhelming and people walked around with handkerchiefs or nosegays pressed against their nostrils.

  • The flower are generally considered not suitable for picking but may be used in nosegays and tussy-mussies.

  • Some of his works are displays of abundance; others, only a festoon or a nosegay.

  • Handheld bouquets are classified by several different popular shapes and styles, including nosegay, crescent, and cascading bouquets.

  • Traditionally, brides will also carry a small nosegay.

  • In the sixteenth century medicinal nosegays began to give way to ornamental ones.

  • These are thought to have derived from nosegays which would have mitigated the smell of some of the less salubrious parts of the town in times past.

  • A tussie mussie is a small circular bouquet like a nosegay, but carries symbolic meaning based upon the language of flowers, where particular flowers represent specific sentiments.

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