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单词 posy
释义
posypo‧sy /ˈpəʊzi $ ˈpoʊ-/ noun (plural posies) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINposy
Origin:
1500-1600 poesy
Examples
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  • All the bridesmaids carried posies of spring flowers, and wore antique pearl and gold necklaces and bracelets.
  • Heartsease makes a sweet Victorian posy.
  • Martina carried a posy and Claire a basket of similar flowers to the bride.
  • Masses of posies aside, there are plenty of ways to have a perfumed garden.
  • She was looking at the posy of Neapolitan violets that had just arrived from Alfred.
  • The posies of corn had been trampled in the mud.
  • The hothouse flowers gardenia and stephanotis had to be coaxed and nurtured into flowering for the posies and the bridegroom's buttonhole.
  • They carried between them hoops made into garlands, big baskets of flowers or small posies.
a small bunch of flowers
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