nosegay

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After studying over it a moment she remembered there was a poem in "Songs for the Little Ones at Home," called "The Orphan Nosegay Girl."

From Georgina of the Rainbows by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

"Wot do you s'y for 'Gimme a tuppenny packet o' Nosegay'?"

From Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by Hall, James Norman

I had observed as follows in the work just referred to, "What would Hortensius say to the gathering of such flowers, to add to the previously collected Lincoln Nosegay?"

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

TUSSY-MUSSIES "There be some flowers make a delicious Tussie-Mussie or Nosegay both for Sight and Smell."

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

Nosegay, nōz′gā, n. a bunch of fragrant flowers: a posy or bouquet.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various