Crossword clues for posy
posy
- Bitty bouquet
- What a bridesmaid might carry
- Verse sent with a nosegay
- Ring-around-the-rosy bouquet
- One of a poetic pocketful
- One of a pocketful of flowers
- One in a pocketful
- Minor bouquet
- Hair arrangement, perhaps
- Fragrant prom present
- Fragrant arrangement
- Flower shop purchase
- Flower in a poetic pocketful
- Flower in a nursery rhyme pocketful
- Floral cluster
- Daisy, for example
- Bouquet flower
- Arrangement item
- "Ring-around-the-rosy" flower
- ''Ring Around the Rosie'' flower
- Bouquet of flowers
- Nosegay component
- Floral arrangement
- Small bouquet
- An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
- Small bunch of blossoms
- Brief sentiment
- Small bunch of flowers
- Showy flower
- Bridal accessory
- "Ring Around the Rosie" flower
- Ring-around-the-rosy flower
- Bunch of flowers
- Bride's throwaway
- Little bouquet
- Flower in a pocketful?
- Florist's creation
- One of a pocketful, in nursery rhyme
- Fragrant bunch
- Florist's arrangement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Posy \Po"sy\, n.; pl. Posies. [Contr. fr. poesy.]
A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring. ``The posy of a ring.''
--Shak.-
[Probably so called from the use of flowers as having an enigmatical significance. Wedgwood.] A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. ``Bridegroom's posies.''
--Spenser.We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also posey, 1530s, "line of verse engraved on the inner surface of a ring," from poesy "poetry; a passage of poetry," which is recorded in this sense from early 15c. Meaning "flower, bouquet" first recorded 1570s, from notion of the language of flowers.
Wiktionary
n. A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.
WordNet
Usage examples of "posy".
As the day wore on, and news of what had happened spread round the village, small posies appeared early daffodils and polyanthus plucked from gardens and left as close to the building as the police permitted.
It looked like most of the others, a simple octavo volume with a formula in verse on the recto and a woodcut of the finished posy on the facing page.
Now that she smelled like stinkweed and posies, now she was eager to be helpful?
She took a little posy of violets with her which her hostess received with cries of delight, despite the fact that, unbeknown to Emily, there was a large greenhouse in the grounds where an elderly and crotchety gardener cherished pots of them.
Joe took two posies out of the water in the handbasin and carried them down to his landlady, who beamed all over.
Park is fairly thin of company, and I saw some posies back there a while ago that would look very fetching tucked into your, um, into your.
She only reacted this way to posies as a rule, but when she glanced around she did not see any.
Helen had stood squinting in horror at the compressed patch of posies beneath.
She really had suffered a violent reaction to those posies he had purposely laid their blanket on.
Now that she smelled like stinkweed and posies, now she was eager to be helpful?
A woman might have sent ore or two posies in fun, but never for weeks on end.
Though I confess I have not sought to set a new fashion in posies to match a dress .
And nerve she had, no doubt of it, by the way in which she had refused to let his unsettling jests with oranges, posies and gloves disturb her.
It was with a mournful interest that all day I watched him follow the child about, gather her posies, help her to water her flowers, and accommodate himself to those whims and fancies, of which, as the pet and the youngest, Mistress Maud had her full share.
His only ornaments were the earring and the tiny black and white posy.