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bough-pot arch. or dial.|ˈbaʊpɒt|
Also 7 bow-pott, 7– bow-pot.
[f. bough n. + pot: cf. beau-pot.]
A pot or other vessel for holding boughs, etc., for ornament; a flower-pot; in 19th c. also a bunch of flowers, bouquet.
1583J. Higins Junius' Nomenclator 388 Bough-pots, or flower pots set in the windows of private houses. 1665Pepys Diary 13 Sept., The wind.. flung down a great bow-pott that stood upon the side-table. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iii. iii, Not..a twig but what's in the bough⁓pots out of the window. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 206 Bough-pots decorate their windows. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair i, ‘We have made her a bow-pot.’ ‘Say a bouquet..'tis more genteel.’ 1884Leisure Hour Apr. 233/1 Removed to make place [in grates] for the ‘bough-pots’, or posies. |