单词 | bough-pot |
释义 | bough-potn. archaic or dialect. A pot or other vessel for holding boughs, etc., for ornament; a flowerpot; in 19th cent. also a bunch of flowers, bouquet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet bobc1400 posya1500 poesy1565 bough-pot1585 ramilletec1620 bouquet1717 tisty-tosty1825 booky1842 bokay1847 shower bouquet1891 porte-bouquet1900 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator Bough-pots, or flower pots set in the windows of private houses. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 13 Sept. (1972) VI. 222 The wind..flung down a great Bowpott that stood upon the side-table. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 39 Not..a twig but what grows in bow-pots out at the windows. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 206 Bough-pots decorate their windows. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) i. 1 ‘We have made her a bow-pot.’ ‘Say a bouquet..'tis more genteel.’ 1884 Leisure Hour Apr. 233/1 Removed to make place [in grates] for the ‘bough-pots’, or posies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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