An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

Usage examples of bouquet.

Medico-Chirurgical Association of London, January 25, 1870, there was an anosmic patient mentioned who was very fond of the bouquet of moselle, and Carter mentioned that he knew a man who had lost both the senses of taste and smell, but who claimed that he enjoyed putrescent meat.

On the kitchen counter was a huge bouquet of waxy red flowers with yellow spadix -- anthuriums, if Kenneth recalled correctly -- and a large wooden model ship.

On his desk was another bouquet of anthuriums, and a computer workstation, which was currently half-disassembled.

Servants now came from the carriages, their arms laden, and the king himself presented every female artiste with a huge bouquet of hothouse carnations and a fine, fringed silk shawl embroidered with a crown.

Katalin-Cricket-Grillon was the recipient of almost as many bouquets and candy boxes and messages as was the star artiste, Clover Lee.

And as he stared at it, he imagined that he himself was such an alembic, simmering away inside just like this one, out of which there likewise gushed a distillate, but a better, a newer, an unfamiliar distillate of those exquisite plants that he tended within him, that blossomed there, their bouquet unknown to anyone but himself, and that with their unique scent he could turn the world into a fragrant Garden of Eden, where life would be relatively bearable for him, olfactorily speaking.

She inhaled the scent deeply and thought of Mamo and her Canada Bouquet, and she tried not to be homesick.

The tables were brightened with the bouquets and the floral designs of ships, anchors, harps, and doves sent to the lady passengers, and at one time the Marches thought they were going to be put before a steam-yacht realized to the last detail in blue and white violets.

He stuck out a bouquet of pink tulips, and confused by the gesture, Marcie took them.

A boy then presented the Mayoress with a bouquet of chrysanthemums, there was unenthusiastic applause, and young Mr Perse returned to his place behind the scenes by way of a swing door which led to a passage which, in its turn, led to the dressing-rooms.

She wore a gown of pale saffron trimmed with three bouquets of pompon roses mixed with green.

He kept going, parking at the curb of the Royal Flush Rosery to rush in and buy a bouquet of flowersjust for the hell of it.

Catherine sait que les fleurs sont des parures seantes, et que les belles dames qui mettent des bouquets a leur corsage en paraissent plus jolies.

The Scuzz crowd, obviously a discriminating group of individuals, savored the opening number like wine-tasters, reserving judgment until the full bouquet could be experienced.

I would not say bouquets may be gathered in the depth of winter, but what will be equally cheering may be had in blow, such as the Bluet, Violet, Primrose, Christmas Rose, Crocus, Hepatica, Squills, Snowdrops, and other less known winter bloomers.