nosegay

Example Sentences

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They tried to stop this foul air from reaching them by covering their faces or clutching sweet-smelling nosegays.

From BBC

In 1859, Nightingale wrote that when she had been ill, her recovery quickened after she received “a nosegay of wild flowers”.

From The Guardian

Snow, also, is so abundant in the romantic world of this production, at the Kennedy Center Opera House through Dec. 9, that it’s an accessory — the waltzing Snowflakes carry snowball nosegays.

From Washington Post

The tradition of carrying myrtle began after Queen Victoria was given a nosegay containing myrtle by Prince Albert's grandmother during a visit to Gotha in Germany.

From BBC

Dried flowers; a nosegay, a posy, a rose clipped the night before battle.

From The Verge