bouquet
noun
- collection of cut flowers in a creative arrangement
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /buːˈkeɪ/ / /boʊˈkeɪ/
name
Etymology: Etymology tree French Bouquetbor. English Bouquet Borrowed from French Bouquet.
- A surname from French.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *buskaz Frankish *buskbor. Early Medieval Latin boscus Old French boisder. Old French bochet French bouquetubor. English bouquet Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket.
- A bunch of cut flowers.
“For my birthday I received two bouquets.”
- A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
“Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.”
“Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.”
- The scent of a particular wine.
“This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.”
- The middle note of a perfume.
“The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.”
- A compliment or expression of praise.
“Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag.”
- A bouquet of circles.
- The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
- The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.