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单词 bough-pot
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bough-potn.

/ˈbaʊpɒt/
Forms: Also 1600s bow-pott, 1600s– bow-pot.
Etymology: < bough n. + pot n.1: compare beau-pot n.
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.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet
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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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